The president of the Union of Pharmacy Owners (Unprofa), Orlando Pérez, described this Wednesday as favorable, the decision that the Executive took on Tuesday to present a modification to Law 1 of Medicines that will allow pharmacies to import medicines, allowing the free supply and demand.
Pérez stressed that the owners of pharmacies should meet, since hardly all the owners of small pharmacies have the possibility of going abroad and bringing medicines, because some laboratories and companies are going to ask for large amounts of purchases and there is no capacity to pay.
“We are trying to organize ourselves, we are going to start convening the owners of pharmacies by province and see the most viable possibility that we can all unite to be able to import medicines directly and that they reach our pharmacies at cheaper prices, and offer medicines with lower prices to the Panamanian population,” he stressed.
He mentioned that this modification is very similar to the parallel importation approved in Costa Rica. In turn, he said that the Government bets that in six months everything will be executed.
“We hope that a good regulation will be made, that will allow us to import, but also that it will close the door to those who plan to do inappropriate things because we have to take care of the Panamanian population. Parallel or direct importation opens the door so that the malicious can bring medicines counterfeit or adulterated, we cannot leave everything open,” he said.
