To Kazakhstan for insulin, to Turkey for antidepressants A new type of tourism: Russians fly abroad in search of drugs for diabetes, epilepsy and other diseases that have disappeared from pharmacies. Since the beginning of the war, at least 80 types of drugs have been in short supply in pharmacies due to the breakdown of supply chains and the departure of foreign pharmaceutical companies. Russian analogues are not a panacea, doctors and patients explain in conversations with Vorstka.

Since the beginning of the war, at least 80 types of drugs have been in short supply in pharmacies due to the breakdown of supply chains and the departure of foreign pharmaceutical companies. Russian analogues are not a panacea, doctors and patients explain in conversations with Vorstka. Therefore, we now have to fly to other countries to get medicines. But transporting them is not always safe, lawyers warn. And soon this practice may be completely outlawed.