Common gout drugs soared 6 times in 3 years. Why did the price of common gout drugs rise
4hw.com.cn: a year ago, a patient reported on the Internet: 'I am a gout patient. Allopurinol tablets are the basic drug for the treatment of gout. I have taken allopurinol tablets orally since 2010. The drug price has changed from the initial 6.5 yuan 100 tablets to 15 yuan 100 tablets in 2013, to more than 20 yuan 100 tablets in 2016, 37 yuan 100 tablets in the second half of 2017 and 72 yuan 100 tablets in early 2018, In the meantime, the relevant state departments have imposed huge penalties on three pharmaceutical companies such as Jiangsu World Trade Tianjie for colluding to monopolize the price increase. Now it is soaring again. Is it illegal? I hope to check. "
Liu Ye (a pseudonym), the person in charge of a pharmacy in Sichuan, confirmed to the reporter of China Business Daily: "at present, the purchase price of allopurinol tablets in 100 tablets has soared to more than 130 yuan, and digoxin tablets in the same 100 tablets has risen from about 10 yuan to 70 or 80 yuan, and now it has fallen back to more than 60 yuan."
Strangely, on the one hand, the market price of allopurinol tablets soared, but on the other hand, few enterprises produced it