OREANDA-NEWS  The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation has published on the portal of draft regulatory legal acts a draft on the introduction of drugs for termination of pregnancy in the list of funds subject to quantitative accounting.

"Section four of the PKU list is supplemented with the positions "misoprostol (medicines)" and "mifepristone (medicines)," the document says.

The draft emphasizes that taking drugs for abortion outside a medical organization increases the risk of complications. According to the explanatory note, this decision was made due to the fact that pharmacies often practice selling such medical supplies to patients, including without prescriptions.

The fact that the Ministry of Health has developed a draft order to control the turnover of drugs for abortion, was previously reported by the head of the department Mikhail Murashko. He promised that the ministry would insist and also make every effort to have the project adopted by the end of 2023, he stressed. In July 2023, Murashko called for taking drugs for medical abortion under strict control.

Back in May 2020, the then Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights, Anna Kuznetsova, proposed restricting the sale of abortion drugs in pharmacies. In June 2023, Kuznetsova, as deputy speaker of the State Duma, suggested that Russian governors not issue abortion licenses to private clinics.