Shaanxi: make every effort to maintain the price order of the epidemic prevention medicine market

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The number of new crown infections has increased, the supply of epidemic prevention drugs in pharmacies exceeds the demand, and some patients have no drugs available; some people are selling epidemic prevention drugs and instruments at high prices on online platforms and near hospitals; some e-commerce platforms are disrupting the market order by unilaterally returning epidemic prevention materials such as antigen detection reagents and “in short supply” foods such as canned yellow peaches, maliciously raising prices, and replacing good with bad. …… With the recent adjustment of the epidemic prevention and control measures in China and the province, these problems emerged and quickly became the focus of the public’s attention.

Around such matters of concern to the public, market supervision departments at all levels in Shaanxi Province focus on important livelihood commodities, epidemic prevention drugs and epidemic prevention supplies to maintain price stability, and make every effort to maintain the market price order in Shaanxi Province. since December, the system has deployed 5,976 inspectors, 5,774 inspection units, issued 1020 price reminder caution letters, on-site correction of minor violations of 15 cases, investigation and handling of 6 cases, and Verification of complaints reported 126 clues, for the masses to recover economic losses of 55,800 yuan.

All efforts to maintain market order

It is understood that the market supervision departments at all levels in Shaanxi Province to focus on epidemic prevention drugs and important livelihood commodities, extensive market inspections and inspections, field inspections, interviews and reminders to crack down on price gouging, hoarding and other illegal behavior.

At the same time, strengthen the collaboration and linkage with the price monitoring department, daily grasp of the market price of important commodities for people’s livelihood, as appropriate, to carry out timely verification and disposal of important commodity markets with abnormal price fluctuations.

It is reported that the Xi’an Municipal Bureau conducts network-wide monitoring of online sales of epidemic prevention commodities to grasp the price dynamics of epidemic-related materials and market supply in real time; the Hanzhong Municipal Bureau and Shangluo Municipal Bureau carry out special quality sampling of epidemic-related medicine and firearms.

All-out efforts to ensure supply and price stability

Market supervision departments at all levels in Shaanxi Province have mapped out the bottom number of enterprises producing and selling epidemic-related drugs, helped them broaden procurement channels and increase drug reserves; guided retail pharmacies to set up special counters for the sale of “epidemic prevention drugs”, marked the prices of the same type of drugs clearly, displayed them centrally, and guided the public to purchase drugs rationally by pharmacists in the stores at the same time. In retail pharmacies, a limited number of antipyretic and analgesic drugs are sold, avoiding the hoarding and waste of drugs in shortage and urgently needed, and striving to guarantee the most basic drug needs of as many people as possible; encouraging drug retail enterprises to distribute free anti-epidemic drugs to the public, and announcing the time and place of drug distribution through multiple channels ……. The supply is stable and the price is stable.

Increase the investigation and punishment of illegal acts and exposure efforts

The province unblocked 12315 complaint reporting channels, timely collection of epidemic prevention and control of pharmaceuticals and other key product quality, price case clues. In response to offline inspection, network monitoring and related issues reported by the public complaints, market supervision departments around the rapid verification and disposal, according to the law to investigate and deal with a number of inflated drug prices, not in accordance with the provisions of the price, private high price in the WeChat group sales of new crown virus antigen detection reagents cases, and timely exposure. Up to now, Hanzhong City Bureau and Hancheng City Bureau have exposed 7 typical cases involving epidemic, which strongly deter the illegal behavior.

Next, market supervision departments at all levels in Shaanxi province will continue to strengthen departmental collaboration and linkage, continue to increase the important livelihood commodities, epidemic prevention drugs and epidemic prevention supplies market price inspection and inspection efforts, and strictly investigate and deal with unspecified prices, price jacking, price collusion, price fraud, hoarding and other illegal and illegal behavior, and effectively maintain the province’s market price order.