Domestic producers own only 31.4% of the market
According to the I half 2013 results, the volume of pharmacy sales of medications in the country was 14.6 billion UAH for 625 million packages, up 15.7% in cash and 3.8% in-kind from last year, the press service of the State Service for Medicines informs.
In kind (i.e. in packages) most part of sold medications were of domestic production (65.4%), and only 34.6% packages were foreign-made.
At the same time, in monetary terms, it is quite the opposite: Ukrainian consumers paid 68.6% for foreign-made drugs, and only 31.4% for drugs produced domestically.
