subject: Western medicine Sinopharm 22 times the price gap by: price exceeded all illegal - drug price gap - the pharmaceutical industries [print this page] Western medicine Sinopharm 22 times the price gap by: price exceeded all illegal - drug price gap - the pharmaceutical industries
Same ingredients, same dosage form of drugs, but because the foreign and domestic production, it will set different prices, some can be the difference between 20 times. In recent days, journalists have received a lot of people to reflect, to challenge the Import Drug virtual lift prices, lot of bogus sales of drugs to the public. Professionals that imported drugs may be made in the process is better than drugs, but generally speaking, the same pharmaceutical composition is basically the same effect.
- Market Visit The same ingredients, spread cry 67-year-old provincial capital with the public Haisheng years of high blood pressure, when each hospital will be open to the boxes of worship aspirin tablets, and use the drug for several years. Year, Chen Haisheng at the gates of the community hospital prescription, the doctor said, the drug not available, give him to open the boxes of the same composition of aspirin enteric coated tablet, six months down the new dressing efficacy feel Haisheng was good, but the difference between the two drugs are nearly ten times the price.
Yesterday, reporters in the provincial capital city to see some pharmacies, Germany imported the worship Aspirin (0.1g 30 piece / box) price of 14.3 yuan, while domestic drug production in Afghanistan, Nanjing Bai Jingyu Pharmaceutical Division aspirin enteric-coated tablets (25mg 100 tablets) as long as the price of 1.6 yuan, the two ingredients are aspirin, and aspirin, the latter is far more than the total content of the former, but after the price of the former who 9 times.
Bigger difference is ofloxacin eye drops, Japanese imports Tarivid (15ml: 5ml) price of 30.2 yuan / bottle, while the Wuhan production ofloxacin eye drops (15ml: 5ml) for just 1.8 yuan / bottle, the two main ingredients are ofloxacin, but the price difference of almost 16 times.
Belgian production "asked one hundred persons," and Japanese production Carlin You are a very popular two drops, the main ingredients are sodium tobramycin and imidacloprid Nuo Kexin, priced at 18 yuan / bottles and 15.5 Yuan / bottle, while the same composition of the domestic drug of Compound (Shenyang Xing Qi pharmaceutical) and "catalin" (Wuhan Grand Pharmaceutical) were only the price of 3 yuan and 3.8 yuan .
"Adalat" (30mg 7 film) is normally open to patients of the hospital blood pressure medicines, imported medicines for the German plain, the main components of nifedipine, the current pharmacy price of more than 35 yuan / box , while the formulation and composition of the same content of greater domestic drug nifedipine tablets (10mg 100 pills) cost just 1.5 yuan / bottle, up to 22 times the difference.
Antibiotics Prescribing in the gap is very large. For example, the Hong Kong production Emo Xian Capsules (0.25g 24 capsules / box), a price pharmacy 12.5 yuan, its composition is amoxicillin, and the same composition and dosage forms of domestic aspirin capsule ( Baiyun Mountain in Guangzhou Pharmaceutical) for just about 5 yuan.
For "import" vest, worth Douzhang 3 percent
To the provincial capital many patients feel confused, some domestic drug put on "imported drugs," the coat, the "worth" a lot on the up, the reporter found that a number of joint brand drug prices are a lot of money , far more than the same composition and dosage form of pure domestic medicine.
"White with black" (15 / box) is the most commonly Cold Medicine, until by the Jiangsu Dongsheng Gaitianli pharmaceutical production, the price of 8 yuan per box. Last year in July, the German Bayer Group to 1.072 billion yuan of huge amounts of money buy the "white with black" brand non-prescription drugs, "white with black" into the foreign investment from the "origin", then changed to a new package, priced up to 10.5 yuan / box, or up to 31%, but no change in composition and dosage form.
Reporter saw, and imported drugs similar to some of the domestic production of the joint venture brand drug prices are far beyond the domestic medicine. Hypoglycemic class medicine "Glucophage" (0.5g 20 piece / box) is the main component of metformin hydrochloride tablets price of 42.5 yuan / box, while the same composition and dosage forms of domestic drug prices is only 2.8 yuan / box ; American Shanghai Squibb Pharmaceutical production of antibiotic medicines, "Pan Jie Fu" (0.25g 24 pieces) of the main components Cephalosporin Drawing set, priced at 35 yuan / box, but made in China Cephradine capsules cost just 6 yuan / box.
