Legalization of drug delivery by certified postal operators amid quarantine will reduce the spread of the disease, according to the Manufacturers of Medications of Ukraine Association.
“This issue becomes especially relevant in the situation when it is necessary to limit unnecessary contacts as much as possible, because a pharmacy becomes one of the places of active contacts. This is especially important for elderly people who urgently need medicines and form the basis of the risk group,” head of the association Petro Bahriy said.
He noted that “the de facto delivery of medicines purchased online exists, but is illegal.”
“Such a service needs to be legalized so that people who need medicines can be quarantined,” he said.
According to the expert, the legitimization of such a delivery will guarantee the quality, origin of drugs and compliance with the mandatory logistic requirements, while involving all certified operators in the delivery will allow delivering drugs quickly and on time.
Director General of InterChem pharmaceutical company (Odesa) Anatoliy Reder, in turn, noted that attracting all the postal operators of Ukraine to the delivery of medicines will enable the widest possible delivery with a significant limitation of contacts and the spread of coronavirus.
According to him, this option will allow people living in remote and rural areas to “get their medicines at the right time and with the guaranteed quality.”
Reder believes that the possibility of delivery will not have a significant impact on the price of drugs.
CORONAVIRUS, DELIVERY, LEGALIZATION, MEDICINES, POSTAL OPERATORS
The National Commission for Communications and Informatization Regulation (NCCR) has placed information about Euro Ukrposhta LLC (Chernivtsi) and Sky Logistics LLC (Kyiv) to the unified public register of postal operators.
According to a posting on the website of the commission, the decision was made on October 2, 2018.
Euro Ukrposhta provides services for receiving, processing, transporting and delivering postal items, performs user orders for postal money transfers throughout Ukraine (except for the government uncontrolled territories) as well as internationally from the territory of the European Union and the Middle East: Israel, Turkey, Egypt and Syria.
Sky Logistics provides services of receiving, processing, transporting and delivering postal items, performs user orders for postal orders throughout Ukraine (except for the government uncontrolled territories).
According to the public register of companies and individual entrepreneurs, Euro Ukrposhta has a charter capital of UAH 5,000 and registered in Chernivtsi. The company’s owners are two individuals: Roman Makoviychuk and Oleksandr Timush.
The company Sky Logistics has a charter capital of UAH 48,000 and registered in Kyiv. Its founder is individual Oleksiy Hryniuk.
In February, PJSC Ukrposhta turned to Euro-Ukrposhte LLC with a proposal to inform its customers that the latter is not related to the state-owned enterprise.
EURO UKRPOSHTA, POSTAL OPERATORS, REGISTERS, REGULATOR, SKY LOGISTICS
