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15/05/2012
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Brasilia - From June 4, three asthma medicines will be available for free delivery within the People's Pharmacy program. They are: ipratropium bromide, beclomethasone dirpoprionato and salbutamol sulphate in ten presentations.
The drugs are already incorporated in the program People's Pharmacy, and are sold with 90% discount. With the announcement Monday, the government will pay for laboratories is the amount currently paid by the patient.
Free distribution of these drugs cost R$ 30 million per year. The 2012 budget of the program to distribute medicines free of cost, not counting the figures for the costs with the inclusion of asthma drugs, is R$ 836 million.
Gratuity should benefit up to 800,000 patients per year. Currently, the People's Pharmacy program serves 200 000 people who purchase drugs for the treatment of asthma. The estimate is that the ministry, with free, this number could quadruple.
According to the Ministry of Health, the inclusion of asthma medications in the program because it happened after the gratuity of hypertension and diabetes, it was realized that the sale of medicines for asthma was the most popular in pharmacies grew, reaching 322% increase between February 2011 and April 2012.
Source: Online Extra
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