Pharmacies can not stock up due to the high cost of medicines

Vargas state pharmacies are going through a serious crisis caused by the high cost of medicines, reports the newspaper La Verdad de Vargas. 

The accelerated growth of inflation has put in serious problems to the pharmacies that can not be supplied by the high cost of the medicines, most of them imported that make them incomprables by their dollarized prices.

 The San José pharmacy, located in Maiquetía, prepares prepared formulas, whether drops or creams, in order to obtain some sales because the few medications available are inaccessible to the majority for the costly, says saleswoman Greilin Arteaga. 

It emphasizes that most of the medicines that they possess are imported, that is why in the orders they request those whose prices are more accessible to the consumer so that they can be sold and do not remain in the shelves.

Arteaga said that they stopped asking for contraceptives, because their price exceeds 3 million bolivars and nobody with this crisis has that amount to buy them.

On the other hand Mary Henríquez, employee of a pharmacy in Catia la Mar, says that the most demanded medicines at affordable prices arrive in small quantities and when they do they are exhausted in a flash.

 Indicates that many resort to natural remedies because of their low cost because antibiotics, and medications such as losartan, diaformin and contraceptives are at exorbitant prices. 

Raiza Bermúdez, patient, indicates that he has had to resort to the exchange to obtain some medicine even if that means sacrificing a food product that is also expensive. Consider however that it is the best option. 

On the other hand Andrea Ramírez says that in the absence of supply and alternatives has seen the need to buy medicines at high prices.