Survey profile
Russia, Tatarstan, February 2011

Country name Russia
Date of first day of data collection   01 February 2011
International reference price data source and year MSH2010 
Name of local currency Roubles 
Exchange rate   1 US Dollar = 27.7 Roubles (01 February 2011)
Total number of medicines surveyed 50 
               Global 14 
               Regional 16 
               Supplementary 20 
               EML 49 
Daily salary of lowest paid unskilled government worker 144 Roubles


Sector surveyed Number of outlets/orders surveyed
Public sector procurement prices 
Public sector patient prices  30 
Private sector patient prices  30 

Comments
In addition to surveying 14 WHO/HAI global core medicines and 16 regional medicines, data was collected for 65 medicines to treat cardiovascular medicines. Of these 65 medicines, 39 had international reference prices. The database includes findings for the core and regional medicines, plus 20 of of the cardiovascular medicines (all of which had international reference prices). Results for all 95 medicines will be included in the survey report (not currently available).  

Country report (where available) can be downloaded at http://www.haiweb.org/medicineprices/surveys.php


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