From: Mariana Mkurnali <[email-masked]>
To: Maia Nikoleishvili <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 13:49:08 +0000

Subject: Importing Medicines for Personal Use

Dear Sir/Madam,

First of all, let us express our gratitude for the medical treatment provided by your country to our citizen Sopiko Babilodze and for supporting her family.

The issue of funding medical services by the state for a citizen Sopiko  Babilodze’s ( ID number: პ/ნ 3300105475 aged 36, socially vulnerable -25520 points with the diagnosis: severe hypoplasia of thyroid gland, primary hypothyroidism, resistance to treatment – malabsorption syndrome of oral medication levotheroxine), in accordance with the resolution N 331 of November 3, 2010 of the Georgian Government the decision on providing medical assistance to patients within the "referral service" has been reviewed several times by the Commission:

N7 session on March 22, 2014  - Requested amount - 2956,00 EU – Funded amount - 2956,00 EU ((PHI/PHARMA INTERNATIONAL -Germany))

N47 session in 2014 - Requested amount - 2956,00 EU - Funded amount - 600,00 EU

((PHI/PHARMA INTERNATIONAL -Germany))

N5 session in 2015 - Requested amount - 4662,00 EU - Funded amount - 4662,00 EU

((PHI/PHARMA INTERNATIONAL -Germany))

N1 meeting in 2016;  - Requested amount - 300,00 GEL - Funded amount - 300,00 GEL (Ltd. Aversi Clinic)

N5 session in  2016 - Requested amount - 3920,00 EU - Funded amount 3920,00 EU (Universitats Klinikum Freiburg, Germany).

N10 session on February 22, 2018 Requested amount - 14700,00 GEL- Funded amount - 10 000 GEL (JSC Gepha, Medication L-thyroxine -500 mkg, form - vial).

Sopiko Babilodze has been already fully financed for the current year by the abovementioned Commission, within the established and agreed annual fund limit.

Certain medications may be unavailable in Georgia but at the same time it could be essential for surviving. This is taken into consideration, and according to the decree N31/ნ, issued by the minister of Labor, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia on June 15, 2011 on ,,defining the amount of the medications to be imported onto the territory of Georgia and exported out of the territory of Georgia for individual needs“, Georgian Pharmaceutical network is allowed to bring in the necessary medication for the citizen and give it out to the patient in accordance with the procedures envisaged by the abovementioned decree.

According to existing rules, if the medicines is prescribed by the authorized prescriber, and  the amount of medicine imported exceeds 10 commercial packages, appropriate application should be submitted together with the medical documents (Form # 100 ) to LEPL State Regulation Agency for Medical Activities, which will issue import permission letter for unauthorized medicinal product to be imported for personal use. If the amount of imported medicine is less than 10 commercial packages, there is no need of importing permission letter if at customs signed declaration contains appropriate information about intended use of the product (personal use). Such medicinalal products, intended for personal use, could be imported by natural persons or legal entities authorized to import medicinal products.

Mariana Mkurnali

Head of Interational Relations Division

Analytics, HR Management and International Relations Department

Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia

144 A.Tsereteli Avenue, 0159, Tbilisi, Georgia

Mobile number: +995 599 49 09 42

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