The Minister Delegate in charge of Relations with Parliament, the official spokesperson for the government, Mustafa Paytas, revealed, on Thursday, that when the government began working on social protection workshops, “one of its concerns was how to preserve the permanence of the funds that will finance social protection programmes, by controlling the costs and prices of medicines.” profit margins, and so on.
The Supreme Council of Accounts revealed that the profit margins of pharmacists in selling medicines amount to an average rate of 57 percent, which is many times greater than the profit margins of their colleagues in countries close to Morocco.
For this purpose, Paytas continues, in response to questions from journalists after the government council, the government conducted a study, several months ago, based on a new approach in light of the observations of the Supreme Court of Accounts and the experiences of a group of countries that have “very useful” systems at the educational level in managing this. The file, pointing out that this plan could not be downloaded due to the lack of a professional address.
The minister stressed the need to organize the elections for the two regional councils of pharmacy in pharmacies in the north and south, to identify an addressee on behalf of the sector, explaining that draft Decree-Law No. Because the elections were not organized on time.
He added, “This situation can be understood during the pandemic period, but the government must now take a number of decisions, including its approval today of the draft decree-law that the government has been working on for a while,” noting that the aim of this draft decree-law is “to organize elections.” To identify an addressee who bears responsibility for managing the sector alongside the government, and to open a joint dialogue.
A gathering of pharmacists’ syndicates in Morocco denounced, on Thursday, the results of the report of the Supreme Court of Accounts, considering its content as “superficial”, and stressing that pharmacists’ profits do not exceed 33 percent instead of the percentages presented by the aforementioned council.