The Russian Environmental Operator (REO) sent a letter to the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation with a proposal to create a system for collecting packages from drugs and expired drugs. The newspaper writes about it “News”.
According to the publication, similar letters will be sent to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Rospotrebnadzor.
It is stated that this approach to the collection of drug packages can be applied by placing special containers in hospitals, clinics and pharmacies. To do this, it is necessary to make changes to the sanitary rules.
As Viktoria Presnyakova, director of the Association of Independent Pharmacies, said in a meeting with Izvestia, if pharmacies need to collect and dispose of pharmaceutical waste from the public, their costs will increase significantly.
It was previously reported by the Russian Ministry of Health. spoke with a proposal to expand the experiment to eliminate the possibility of selling expired goods labeled as drugs.