Desperate Slovaks Forced to Buy Their Medicine in Hungary

There is a large scarcity of medications in Slovakia, so most of the people take a look at pharmacies in Austria and Hungary, reported the scoop website Bors Online.

There is a scarcity of principally antihypertensives and antibiotics in Slovakia, therefore their electorate affected by hypertension are forced to go back and forth to Hungary and Austria to shop for merchandise which can be unavailable of their nation. According to the President of the Slovak Chamber of Pharmacy, Ondrej Sukeľ, the lack of medications is a long-standing downside within the nation. The primary reasons are shortages of packaging and uncooked fabrics, exports to different international locations and a surprising surge in call for.

Erzsébet Mészáros, a pharmacist in Southern Slovakia’s Dunajská Streda (Dunaszerdahely), instructed the newspaper she has no longer gained any antibiotics since Wednesday ultimate week, thus she has to make do with penicillin. She added that

many of us are heading to Hungary to shop for issues inexpensive, because the vulnerable Hungarian forex forint is helping the ones buying groceries with the euro, which is Slovakia’s forex.

They are positive to go over, particularly as a result of the vulnerable forint they may be able to purchase drugs a lot inexpensive than right here, mentioned the pharmacist. They principally purchase nutritional dietary supplements and nutrients, and a few even assume giant and purchase better amounts to promote at house,” says the pharmacist, who additionally printed that some prescription drugs can also be purchased with out a prescription in Hungary.

The pharmacist can transfer it on his device in order that it isn’t charged to the social safety machine, however to the affected person himself, who’s then charged the cost of the medication at the spot.

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