Resident of Dagestan complains about absence of subsidized medicines

For six months already, Arizuman Agaliev, a resident of the Derbent District, cannot get his due subsidized medicines from the Dagestani Ministry of Public Health (MPH); his family has to spend 7000 roubles a month to buy the essential drugs, his wife said. Every month, the human rights organization "Patient's Monitor" receives up to 20 applications about the non-issue of subsidized (partially paid from the budget) medicines to beneficiaries in Dagestan, the organization's activists assert.

Arizuman Agaliev has been suffering from Parkinson disease since 2005, his wife told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. According to her story, the drugs "Nakom" and "Requip Modutab", which should be issued by the regional MPH, should be taken by her husband every day throughout his life. Without the systematic use of the prescribed medications, he cannot walk.

Problems with obtaining subsidized medicines appeared in early 2021; and since then the family has been buying medicines at their own expense, the wife has explained.

In response to demands to provide patients with the prescribed drugs, the Dagestani MPH promises to issue them after a certain period of time, but has not yet done this.

Since the start of 2021, the above "Patient's Monitor" has received more than 60 applications from the beneficiaries who had failed to receive their prescribed free drugs; activists managed to obtain the provision of such drugs worth 40 million roubles, said Ziyautdin Uvaisov, the head of the "Patient's Monitor".