Nadzór państwowy nad obrotem produktami leczniczymi – czy można było zapobiec niekontrolowanemu wywozowi leków z Polski

Over the last years, an increase has been observed in taking out from Poland of large amounts of refunded medicines, mainly those that save health and lives of patients, such as insulins, anti-asthmatics, antithrombotic and anti-cancer drugs. The uncontrolled taking out of these medicines has reached the level that cannot be socially acceptable, and that does not allow for providing patients with permanent access to important medical products. Pharmacies, instead of selling drugs to patients, sold them back to pharmaceutical wholesale companies. The latter, in turn, took them out on a massive scale to countries where they are much more expensive. Such a situation was an incentive for NIK to conduct a planned coordinated audit entitled “State Pharmaceutical Inspectorate’s performance of tasks set out in the Act: Pharmaceutical Law”.