there is an acute shortage of painkillers in Russia. This is confirmed by the calculations of the Ministry of health and the pharmaceutical company "Moscow endocrine plant". Last year, 389 thousand packages of narcotic painkillers were required for all subjects according to the plan. But they received only 267 thousand — this is 69% of the required amount. We are talking about "non-invasive forms".

for example, the Republic of Ingushetia in 2017 asked for 450 packages, and in fact did not receive anything at all.Among the Laggards were Crimea and Sevastopol, the need is covered by 23% and 5%, respectively.In Moscow, the need is covered only by 64%. And in St. Petersburg, the request of the region was satisfied by 86%. Problems with painkillers in the Vologda region: the region requested almost 2 thousand packages, and received only 12% (225).). In the TRANS-Baikal territory and Yakutia, the need is covered by about 20%.