According to a survey by the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM), more than half of Russians (62%) have noticed that the prices of medicines they regularly buy have increased in the last six months or a year. . More than half of the respondents (59%) did not encounter the problem of the lack of necessary medicines on the shelves. However, 21% of respondents had encountered this problem once or twice, and 15% several times.
For more than a third of respondents (35%), a significant part of their budget is devoted to drugs. Despite this, 38% do not buy cheaper alternatives to their prescribed drugs, and 35% rarely do.
More than half of the respondents (56%) said that they or their family members had medications that they constantly needed. In most cases (85%), respondents have a supply of medicines or a first aid kit at home.
Respondents also expressed their opinion on the preference for domestic or imported drugs. More than a third (36%) believe that domestic drugs are more effective than imported drugs, while 27% of respondents hold the opposite view. Half of the respondents (50%) prefer national medicines at the same price, and 28% prefer imported ones.
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