Kurgyzstan

Kyrgyz Republic

Kyrgyzstan still imports more than 95% of the pharmaceuticals consumed in the country, mainly from countries in the CIS. Pharmaceutical retailing has been privatized since 1996, and the number of retail pharmacies has increased substantially. Most pharmacies are located in urban areas. The regulatory authority, the Department of Drug Supply and Medical Equipment of the Ministry of Health, is responsible for registering medicines, licensing pharmaceutical activities, quality assurance of the pharmaceutical market and other activities. Rational drug use has been promoted at all levels of health care, and the national essential medicines list and the national drug formulary are regularly updated. A national medicines policy has been in place since 1998 and was last updated in 2007. The financial access to medicines for the population has improved since a value-added tax on pharmaceuticals was cancelled in 2003 and an additional drug benefit package was introduced for outpatients in 2000 «АВС Pharma»provides the following services: primary expertise and estimation of completeness of registration dossier, translation, preparation of required documents in Kyrgyz Republic.

List of documents, required for registration/re-registration in Kyrgyzstan