“On behalf of the head of state, law enforcement agencies carried out work to suppress speculation and illegal drug trafficking during the COVID-19 pandemic. About 1 thousand facts of overpricing medicines in the pharmacies have been revealed. For example, in one of the pharmacies of the West Kazakhstan region the price of "Arbidol" was two times higher than its marginal cost. Instead of the approved T2312, it was sold for T5 thousand," reads the report.
More than 300 facts of illegal sale of drugs and medical devices outside pharmacies have been established, in the absence of a license and safety certificates.
Sale of 82 names of drugs imported from Kyrgyzstan worth T44 million was suppressed under fake safety certificates and without a license for pharmaceutical activities in the Zhambyl region
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