Jan 24 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said connected Tuesday that determination were shortages of immoderate medicines successful Russia and that prices had gone up, contempt the state producing much of its ain drugs.
While medicine drugs are exempt from Western sanctions imposed implicit the warfare successful Ukraine, their transportation to Russia has been deed by transport, security and customs hurdles caused by the warfare and different restrictive measures, manufacture figures say.
"There has been a shortage of immoderate drugs, contempt the information that we saw accumulation of pharmaceutical products successful the (first) 3 quarters of past twelvemonth turn by astir 22%," Putin said during a televised gathering with officials.
"Sixty percent of medicines connected the marketplace are home drugs. Nevertheless, a shortage has formed successful immoderate drugs, and prices person risen," helium added.
Shortly aft Russia invaded Ukraine successful February past year, Russians rushed to banal up connected drugs, with radical buying a month's worthy of medicine successful conscionable 2 weeks.
Russia besides imports a ample stock of its aesculapian equipment, specified arsenic pacemakers and radiotherapy devices, from the European Union and the United States, and its reliance is peculiarly acute for the astir analyzable and captious machines.
Reporting by Reuters Writing by Caleb Davis Editing by Gareth Jones
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