SUPERVISION OF THE LEGALITY OF PHARMACEUTICAL ACTIVITIES AS A WAY TO ENSURE THE RIGHT OF CITIZENS TO HEALTH PROTECTION AND MEDICAL CARE BY THE PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE

The article provides an overview of violations of the current legislation regulating the sphere of pharmaceutical activity, identified by the results of the Supervisory work of the Prosecutor’s office in the period 2019-2020. The author emphasizes that these violations make it impossible to implement the right to health protection and medical care guaranteed by the Constitution of the Russian Federation.

In the area of revealed violations of the legislation, the author included the following entities that enter into legal relations in the sphere of drug turnover: medical organizations, pharmacy organizations, Executive authorities that control pharmaceutical activities, as well as some other entities.

From the author’s point of view, the activity of subjects of legal relations in the pharmaceutical field should be considered as an object of Prosecutor’s supervision, both those who have authority and those who do not, since both conditional groups are obliged to observe and maintain the legal regime of drug turnover.

Every year, the Prosecutor’s office checks about 4 thousand entities that carry out their activities in the field of drug trafficking, which on average can be estimated as 15% of all participants in the pharmaceutical market. The insufficiency of the number of Prosecutor’s checks carried out and their inconsistency with objective reality were clearly proved in March – April 2020. The author emphasizes that the ongoing epidemic of viral infection has made it obvious that there is a need for a conceptual rethinking of both the system for organizing the provision of citizens with medicines and other medical products, and the system for monitoring the legality of the activities of pharmaceutical market entities. With an appropriate level of state forecasting, planning and control, the organization of the sphere of drug turnover should be able to provide safe and high-quality medicines to all categories of Russian citizens, as well as withstand any epidemiological threat, both by creating an inviolable Fund of medicines in the event of similar epidemics, and by complying with pharmacy organizations requirements for the minimum set of medicines approved by the Government of the Russian Federation, and other regulatory requirements. 

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