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10.20.2015
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Consumers who depend on drugs has begun to feel the pressure of prices in pharmacies. The rise in the dollar, which this year has risen 49%, has a direct impact on the pharmaceutical industry. Besides the high inflation, the industry purchase raw materials in US currency. And with the high costs, sets out to find an offset, which results in injury to the user.
Prices continued use of medicines are controlled by the federal government authorizing the annual increase usually on March 31 each year. But the laboratories work with maximum reference prices and, in many cases sell the drugs at a discount. This trade policy, however, has begun to change, with the cut of these rebates.
- It is the first impact to the consumer. The production chain are absorbing cost increases, but can not pass it. So cuts discounts - said the president Geraldo Monteiro, executive director of the Brazilian Association of Distribution and Logistics Pharmaceuticals (Abradilan).
Source: Extra
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