Irakli Gharibashvili: Turkish market was opened today, from where high-quality, but low-cost medicines should be imported to Georgia

According to the Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Gharibashvili, Turkish market was opened today, from where high-quality, but low-cost medicines should be imported to Georgia. According to the Prime Minister, the relevant decree was signed today. At the same time, as Gharibashvili stated at the government session, this decision will quickly reduce the price of medicines in Georgia.

"We signed the government decree today, therefore the Turkish market has already been opened and high quality GMP standard medicines will be imported from Turkey. As you know, there is a big difference between prices. The most demanded medicines that cost conditionally 10 GEL here, they cost 1-2 GEL in Turkey. So I could not hear any argument as to why the Turkish market should not have been opened. So we decided to open the Turkish market. It came into force today and I hope that importers will import high quality medicines from Turkey, which will significantly reduce the prices of medicines in Georgia," Gharibashvili said.