PHARMACIES

PHARMACIES, the healthcare institutions that manufacture, store and dispense drugs, hygiene products and other medical supplements. In 1787 the first private P. owned by B.Miller was opened in Ufa, in 1807 – government-owned. The development of pharmacy network and pharmacy as a field of economy was driven by the opening of Bashfarmatsiya Specialized State Manufacturing Company. Since the early 1990s, private pharmacy networks, such as Dupleks (Sterlitamak), Ortikon (Salavat), Farmakor (Tuymazy), Apteka Ot Sklada, Arnika, Vita, Farmland, Floriya, Ekona (all – in Ufa), etc, open in the republic. There are 700 functioning P. in the republic, 115 of them is state-owned P. of the Bashfarmatsiya Company (2018).