Pharmaceutical products in Kazakhstan rose in price by 11% over the year

Pharmaceutical products in Kazakhstan rose in price by 11% over the year

Astana. 24 August. KAZAKHSTAN TODAY - In July this year, pharmaceutical products rose in price by 0.2% m/m and by 10.8% y/y.

The greatest rise in prices in monthly dynamics was noted in Pavlodar region: by 1.2%. They are followed by Ulytau (plus 0.7% per month), East Kazakhstan, Zhambyl, Zhetysu and Kostanay (plus 0.6% in each of the regions) regions. In Atyrau and Akmola regions, prices remained at the same level. In Turkestan, Karaganda and Almaty regions, prices, on the contrary, slightly decreased: by 0.4%, 0.3% and 0.1%, respectively.

In annual dynamics, the largest annual price increase was recorded in Almaty: immediately plus 18% per year. The three anti-leaders also included Ulytau (plus 15.4%) and Kyzylorda (plus 14.9%) regions. The smallest annual price increase was noted in the Zhetysu region: by 5.9%, according to the portal energyprom.kz.

Analysts specify that among pharmaceutical products in monthly dynamics paracetamol rose by 2.4%, "Essentiale Forte N" - by 1.6%, "Fenistil New" drops - by 1.3%, "Enap" - by 0.9 %, activated carbon - by 0.7%. Prices for such products as acyclovir (by 0.7%), azithromycin and Ingavirin (by 0.6%), Smecta (by 0.5%), Corvalol (by 0.4%), " Rennie", spray "Aqualor Forte" (by 0.3%), "Iodomarin" and acetylsalicylic acid (by 0.2%), "Nurofen" (by 0.1%). In annual dynamics, paracetamol (by 58.2%), iodine solution (by 29.9%), Aqualor Forte spray (by 28.3%), ambroxol (by 21.5%), acetylsalicylic acid (by by 18%), activated charcoal (by 17.8%), acyclovir (by 16.5%).

The specialists stressed that, in general, Kazakhstan provides itself with pharmaceutical products at a rather low level. For example, according to the results of January-June of the current year, the demand (sales on the domestic market plus microscopic exports) for provitamins, vitamins and their derivatives was provided by own production only by a negligible 0.02%. During this period, only 43 kg of vitamins were produced in the country, although this is 48.3% more than a year earlier. For comparison: imports amounted to 173.2 tons (plus 10.4% per year).

Demand for antibiotics is provided better, but still only by 38.2%. The production of antibiotics reached 7.8 tons - 11.2% more than a year earlier. Import at the same time amounted to 12.7 tons, minus 50.7%. Accordingly, the share of imports amounted to 61.8% of the resources. 20.4 tons of antibiotics were sold on the domestic market - 38% less than a year earlier (the decline in the coronavirus pandemic affected).

According to the results of the first half of this year, Kazakhstan imported 13.9 thousand tons of medicines in the amount of 694.2 million US dollars. In physical terms, the growth amounted to 11.9%, in monetary terms, on the contrary, the volume of imports decreased by 3.7%.

From the CIS countries, 4,000 tons of medicines were imported to Kazakhstan - 3.8% less than a year earlier. Most of all medicines were brought from Russia: 2.9 thousand tons for 40.9 million US dollars. Kazakhstan also imports significant volumes of medicines from Belarus and Ukraine: 609.9 and 413.3 tons, respectively.

The volume of imports from other states that are not members of the CIS amounted to 9.9 thousand tons - 19.9% more than a year earlier. The top three countries were China (2.2 thousand tons), Germany (1.3 thousand tons) and India (1.2 thousand tons). Earlier it was reported that in terms of rising prices for medicines, Kazakhstan occupies a leading position among the EAEU countries.