Russia: there was a shortage of a popular antidepressant

The large pharmacy chains of Russia declared problems with the supply of antidepressant with the actor internally. It produces a pharmaceutical company VIATRIS called “Heal”, RBC reports.

with interruptions in the supply of the drug, such Russian pharmacy chains as “Rigra” and “36.6”, which also included “Grange” is also included. In “36.6” “Zoloft” is present in the presence in small quantities, but he has not received from October 2021. At the same time, the drug was one of the three most popular antidepressants from Russians in 2021.

“The deficit of a particular brand is noted -” Claim “. On our request, we have not yet received the prospects for the supply of drug information,” Natalya Burinin said the commercial director of the Pharmaceutical Network. However, there are other medicines with the actant sertraline.

According to the information of the DSM Group analytical company, the sale of “Zolofta” did not show the fall in the retail segment for last year. For November and December in pharmacies sold almost two times more packaging of the drug than for the entire 2020 – 170 thousand packs and 96 thousand, respectively.

“Those figures that we see sales retail are the remnants of the drug, the latest packaging. The deficit has begun from the regions where the greatest consumption is marked – Moscow and Central Russia, but soon it comes to distant regions,” – Stressed RBC CEO of DSM Group Sergey Shalyak.

/Media reports.