Kazakhstan Releases Prices For All Non-Prescription Medicines
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Kazakhstan’s Health Ministry has completely deregulated prices for all over-the-counter medicines, Orda.kz reports.
In 2025, the last 1,707 drugs were removed from state price control. This was stated in Health Minister Akmaral Alnazarova’s response to a parliamentary request from the OSDP faction.
Deregulation was gradual. In 2023, prices were released for 302 drugs, followed by another 952 in 2024. Now the state no longer sets maximum prices for any over-the-counter medicines.
Prescription drugs remain under state control. The government currently regulates prices for 3,039 such medicines.
Another 4,918 drugs have already been deregulated. These include over-the-counter medicines and drugs cheaper than one MCI. Prescription medicines are expected to be fully deregulated by 2027.
At the same time, the Health Ministry revised the price calculation system. Marketing and transportation costs were removed from the formula, and a single markup scale was introduced.
The maximum price is now calculated as the average of the three lowest prices in reference countries, rather than the maximum price, as before.
As a result, the cost of 3,801 medicines decreased. This is 76% of the total number of regulated medicines. On average, prices fell by 26.5%,the ministry said.
Original author: Elvira Ivannikova
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