The diabetes medication important to many has run out of pharmacies in Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa and Kauniainen.
2-type The drug Ozempic used for diabetes is out of stock in almost all pharmacies in Finland.
In the area of Espoo, Vantaa, Helsinki and Kauniainen, the drug that can be given by injection is completely out of pharmacies, he says Apteekki.fi website. The preparation is sold in strengths of 0.25 milligrams, 0.5 milligrams and one milligram.
The mildest can be found in different parts of Finland, but the situation is particularly bad in the capital region. Based on the website, you have to pick up the 0.25 milligram medicine from, for example, Karkkila or Salo. All pharmacies in Finland have run out of other strengths, with some exceptions.
Particular the medicine is Kela-reimbursable if the body mass index is over 30, says the medical director of Novo Nordisk Farma, the importer of the preparation Tero Saukkonen for HS.
The drug has been used in the treatment of overweight, although it is not intended for that, Saukkonen confirms. The importer does not recommend that the product be used as a slimming drug, as it is only intended for the treatment of type 2 diabetes.
Saukkonen does not give exact sales figures, but says that the product is used by tens of thousands of people in Finland. The drug entered the market a few years ago, and the company has not been able to meet the increased demand.
“There is no problem with production. The demand is definitely greater than we have been able to predict.”
The availability problems of the medicine started in mid-August. Saukkonen estimates that the availability problems will continue throughout the fall. The next batch of medicine is coming next week, and more batches will arrive in Finland in October.
According to Saukkonen, the aim is to increase the production capacity in order to get more of the product to Finland.
Espoo Pharmacist at the Tapiola pharmacy Sanna Tiainen according to Ozempic, there is no completely equivalent product, but there are many other drugs for type 2 diabetes.
Tiainen urges people to contact their own doctor to find the right medicine.
How serious is the availability problem?
“It’s always a serious situation if a medicine can’t be found, but doctors are able to compensate with other medical treatments, even if there is no completely equivalent product.”
However, Tiainen reassures those who need medicine and states that the disease has been treated for decades with different medicines, so there are alternatives.
According to Tiainen, there are always availability problems with different medicines.
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