OREANDA-NEWS. November 14, 2011. For three-four years, Ukraine will increase production of own medicines to 60-70 %. This was stated by the Prime Minister Mykola Azarov within the frameworks of visit to the CJSC Pharmaceutical Firm Darnitsa.

"This problem cannot be solved for one year but if we to work persistently over its implementation within three-four years, we will reach the level of provision by medicines of own production approximately at 60-70 %," the Head of Government has stressed.

Thus, Mykola Azarov has underlined that it is quite enough such amount of own medicines and the domestic pharmaceutics can enough really compete with foreign pharmaceutical companies. According to him, this will allow to reduce significantly the prices for medicines and medical drugs, as well as to improve the quality of domestic medical preparations.

In addition, the Head of Government has informed that drugs have being imported to Ukraine more than \\$ 3 billion, and implementation of the large-scale program of import substitution, in particular medicinal preparations, would allow to increase production of its own medicines and significantly to reduce an amount of import, and would also allow to improve the balance of payments of Ukraine.

The Prime Minister has emphasized that drugs which are produced by the Firm Darnitsa, excellent quality and he has promised the governmental support to the enterprise.

Besides, he has stressed that Firm Darnitsa works with the most modern equipment and can withstand all the European standards on quality of medicines. "The work of enterprises - is an index of that, how it is necessary to move to Europe. Such enterprises should constitute the backbone of our economy, the backbone of our industry," Mykola Azarov has summed up.