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MULTIMEDIA
May 27, 2012
 
 
 
 
 
 

[Photo of the week]
Pharmacists close their shutters in protest over drug price cuts

Pharmacies across Turkey were closed on Friday to protest a decrease in the price of medicine. The decision went into effect on Dec. 4, which leaves many pharmacies strapped for cash as medicines that have already been bought at higher prices from pharmaceutical companies will need to be sold for the new lower price.
6 December 2009 / ,
Pharmacists all over Turkey did not work on Friday in a bid to protest government cuts in drug prices, which they say will force at least 7,000 pharmacies to shut down within a year.
The president of a Turkish pharmacists’ association, Erdoğan Çolak, said all pharmacies except for pharmacies on call, would remain closed for the day in what he described as “a warning shot.”

“Our next move will not come as a warning, it will be delivered to yield results,” Çolak, the president of the Turkish Pharmacists’ Association, told reporters outside a pharmacy that had symbolically closed its shutters.

“We are set to hold a grand congress of our association next weekend, and this congress will take radical measures if the government fails to move to solve our problems,” Çolak said.

Price cuts on more than 3,000 drugs were made official on Friday, and pharmacists said the government made no agreement with them to cover losses from their stocks.

Labor and Social Security Minister Ömer Dinçer said on Thursday that pharmacists’ losses from their stockpiles would be covered by pharmaceutical companies.
 
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