Disabled In Brest Left Without Subsidized Medicines
- 21.02.2017, 13:14
Doctors have explained the refusal to issue prescriptions by lack of special forms.
According to vb.by, a doctor in a clinic refused to issue a prescription allowing to buy a medication at a preferential price to the 83-year-old Brest dweller Vasili Vashchuk, saying that there were no forms left.
"A few days ago I went to a clinic in Kirava Street in Brest, – Vasili Vashchuk says. – I am 85 years old, I am a disabled person of group I and have a right to buy medicines at a preferential price. But this time they didn't issue me a prescription allowing to buy the medicine at a lower price, explaining that there were no appropriate prescription forms in the clinic. Therefore, not only I, but other patients have to go without much-needed medications or have to buy them at a full price. I myself am a doctor by profession, I was fighting for people's health, and this situation arouses nothing but bewilderment. I can't believe that in extreme cases they couldn't write out prescriptions for preferential medicines on an ordinary sheet of paper authenticating it with a corresponding seal."
The head physician of the Brest city clinic №1 Uladzimir Klimenka answers the reader:
"We are aware of this problem. The point is that the provision of preferential medicines is performed by the limited-issue forms, which, similar to sick leaves, have a degree of protection. These forms are printed by the national scientific and technological unitary enterprise "Cryptotech" of the State Notes Department of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Belarus. It meets the requirements of the instruction "On The Procedure For The Manufacture Of Limited-Issue Forms And Special Materials." That's why we cannot write out such prescription on an "ordinary sheet of paper." When stock of the forms was coming to an end, was filed an application to Cryptotech. But for some reason they delayed the issue of the forms. Most likely, this is due to the fact that many of the country's health institutions are now starting to use e-prescriptions. As for Brest, almost all medical facilities here are still keeping to the old scheme. But the problem is being solved and those patients, who are eligible to receive preferential treatment, will get their prescriptions of the established sample."