High in the price of the medicine next year should be at 2.8%

The price of medicines should rise, on average, 2.8 percent next year, according to data from the pharmaceutical industry Union in the State of São Paulo in Brazil.
The number, considered not as significant by retail, if hits on a high close to 3.5% this year. Highly regulated, the increase of prices of medicines is controlled by CMED nº 21 Release, fixing the value of the Productivity factor (factor X), to the year 2018 at 0.75%. "Based on it and in market simulations, projects that the increase of medicines for 2018 will be 2.8% on average," says the Sindusfarma.
For the Brazilian Federation of Associative Networks of Pharmacies (Febrafar), another open question is the fate of the program "here is people's pharmacy", you might end up. "Retailers have a huge challenge ahead of us, need to adapt to the characteristics that the market requires. What is observed is that independent retailers are shrinking and not reacting to it. What is very worrying. Thus, strengthening the path for these stores is the associationism ", guides.