There is a shortage of drugs for the thyroid gland in the pharmacies of the region

In Kaliningrad pharmacies, there is a shortage of drugs based on L-thyroxine for people with thyroid diseases. RBC Kaliningrad was told about this by several readers at once.

Kaliningraders faced the inability to buy "Eutiroks" and "L-Thyroxin" already last week. RBC correspondent Kaliningrad visited more than ten different network and non-chain pharmacies in different districts of the regional center and Guryevsk. Pharmacists said that these drugs are not available and it is not known when they will appear. In several pharmacies, they also confirmed by phone that there were no drugs for the thyroid gland. They were not available on the popular website Apteka.ru either.

Residents of other regions of RUSSIA, including Moscow and the Moscow region, faced a similar problem, Vedomosti writes.

"Eutiroks" and "L-Thyroxine" - drugs for the treatment of hypothyroidism (lack of thyroid hormones) are produced by the German companies Merck and Berlin-Chemie, as well as the Russian company Ozone Pharmaceuticals (both have L-thyroxine).

"The shortage of the drug "L-thyroxine" in pharmacies is associated with a manifold increase in demand from buyers," Berlin-Chemie told Kommersant. They added that the supply of drugs "is carried out in the normal mode" and there are no plans to reduce them to Russia. Merck said that the supply of "Eutiroks" is made "in full in accordance with the placed order volumes."