Business Club Oct. 21 hearing: Shanghai required a one-year sale of essential medicines one year in advance of the country's request. The established 688 essential medicines not only covered about 95% of the original community health service centers, but also the price of drugs after bidding. The decline rate last year reached 39%.

“Now people go to the community health service center to see the doctor, medication is more affordable, cheaper, and quality is more assured.” This is the information disclosed by the Municipal Health Bureau when it briefed the health reform work today.

381 species added to 307 basic catalogues in the country

According to reports, in promoting the implementation of the "essential drug system," this Municipality attaches great importance to safeguarding the level of drug use by the public to ensure that drugs are of high quality and at a low price, so that the public can reduce the burden of medical treatment and benefit from medical treatment. On the basis of the country's 307 basic medicines list, Shanghai has added 381 kinds of drugs, which can satisfy the needs of the residents in the community, and it is also the province with the largest number of supplements in the country. For example, antihypertensive drugs, there are 9 kinds of national catalogs, Shanghai added 21 kinds; another example is hypoglycemic agents, there are 4 kinds of national catalogs, Shanghai added 10 kinds.

In accordance with national requirements, all provinces across the country should implement zero-disparity sales at the 100% government-run primary-level medical institutions by the end of this year. In fact, on February 1 this year, the city fully implemented zero-disparity sales at the community health center in the city, which was nearly a year earlier. After implementing the “zero-difference rate” sales and the two measures of bidding and procurement of essential drugs, the price of the community-acquired drugs has dropped significantly from the average of last year. In addition, the city's medical insurance department also reduced the proportion of personal self-esteem of essential medicines in the community.

The bid can purchase more than 3,500 drug products

In the actual operation of basic drug bidding and procurement, this Municipality has adopted supportive encouragement policies for high-quality products and has not promised the lowest price to win the bid. The ultimate successful bidder companies are basically mid-to-large-scale enterprises with high quality scores, ensuring the quality of the winning bids. . For the same drug with two quality levels (common quality level and higher quality level of the original research drug), the winning opportunity is given to each level. According to statistics, there are more than 3,500 drug regulations that can be purchased and supplied by the community in the city, which is far more than the number of successful bids for the 1,000 or so licensed drugs after the basic drug bidding in other provinces and cities.

The Municipal Health Bureau also said today that the purpose of implementing the "Basic Drug List System" is to better protect the general public's medical care and health and reduce the medical burden of the general public. Therefore, it is hoped that citizens can have a thorough understanding of the basic drug system through the consultation window of government agencies' websites or community health centers. If individual drugs are not allocated in the community, citizens can also use alternative drugs within the 688 essential drugs under the guidance of community doctors. In particular, drugs with the same chemical composition and only different production companies do not have to insist too much on the so-called "medication habits." As for the cases where 688 generic medicines in the community health service centers of the community health centers are not equipped with the common name medicines, the public can respond in a timely manner and the community health service centers are responsible for regular adjustments and supplements. (The chief correspondent Shi Jiete correspondent Song Guofan)