The situation with drug supply in Almaty is stable
The issue of drug provision is under special control. The Akim of Almaty, Bakhytzhan Sagintayev, announced this at an online press conference for the media.
Earlier, B. Sagintayev held a meeting with representatives of the Association for Support and Development of Pharmaceutical Activities of the Republic of Kazakhstan, large distributors and pharmacy chains in Almaty, on the situation with the supply of medicines. Today, all pharmacies in the city have all the drugs that are in demand for the treatment of the coronavirus infection.
Today, the Stabilization Fund of Anti-COVID Medicines has a stock of more than 19.4 million packages of drugs, including 2.4 million antibiotics, 335 thousand anticoagulants, about 2.5 million acetylsalicylic acid, 78 thousand vitamins, 568 thousand hormonal drugs, 4,15 million antipyretics, 9 million medical devices - syringes, infusion systems, 180 thousand antiviral drugs and more than 300 thousand other drugs, which is more than a two-month supply.
In addition, the pharmacy chains themselves have created significant stocks of medicines in their warehouses and have noted only a slight seasonal increase in demand up to 20%. There is no shortage of masks either. 749 thousand masks are produced daily, more than 33 million pieces are in the suppliers' warehouses.