The problem of drug shortages is not from yesterday.

These are problems that have been accumulating for years.

This is what Adv.

Maria Petrova, specialist in medical law.

At the moment, a text is in effect, according to which an assessment of the shortage of medicines is made 

if the quantities fall to less than 65% of what is necessary to satisfy health needs for a period of 1 month

.

However, this calculation is made for the previous 6 months, lawyer Petrova explained.

According to her, now, in a situation of a flu epidemic, the consumption of certain medications is much different than in the summer.

Serbezova answered Medzhidiev about the missing medicines

Apart from that, new medicines are introduced, the promotion and distribution of which sometimes leads to 

a certain medicine suddenly becoming popular

.

As a positive change, Petrova considers the 

visibility of stocks in warehouses

.

The trade secret justification is not the most reasonable solution, there should not be the slightest doubt, she pointed out.

The executive agency "Medical supervision" is 

very well conceived and extremely poorly executed

, in Bulgarian terms, the specialist in medical law emphasized.

According to her, "a bad performance deprives her of content".

If the Executive Agency "Medical Oversight" becomes independent

 normatively and in life, if adequate medical standards are adopted, and if it not only imposes fines, but has the power both to conduct trainings and to participate more actively in rulemaking in health care, then it would be fulfilled with content, commented Maria Petrova in the show "Before All".

The so-called

medical standards in our country are made "as 

extremely non-committal, lobbyist texts

", which are prepared 

by people without legal literacy

, which "ties the hands" of the executive agency, she also pointed out.

The lack of standards

 hinders patient rights and the work of doctors, says lawyer Petrova.

"In Bulgaria, 

we do not have a standard for keeping medical documentation

Everyone writes as much as they know, as much as they want, as much as they care to report

. But not for the benefit of medicine, not for the benefit of the patient. From such type of documents we cannot expect reasonable, objective results," she stated.

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