It is reported by the Ministry of Health of kazakhstan.

''People come, they ask, they don’t even ask for any medicine, but they call their complaints, and the pharmacy workers, who are not medical workers, but pharmacists, give them medicines. Including potent drugs sometimes released. This is a violation of the law'', said Elzhan Birtanov, Minister of Health of Kazakhstan.

This means that every people before to go to the pharmacy, they will first have to visit their doctor. Until 2020, the Ministry of Health intends to introduce marginal prices for medicines and to strengthen control over the activities of pharmacies.

Promise to understand and confusion when providing free medicines. Since the beginning of the year, over three thousand Kazakhstanis have complained about this. The inability of officials to plan leads to the fact that there are either no drugs or their excess. For 2016 and 2017, in the 11 regions of the country revealed the remaining drugs worth over 4 billion tenge. In addition, by 2020, Kazakhstan will establish an electronic release of free drugs.

“The Qazaq Times”