REDUCE MEDICINE PRICES; STUDY ATOMIC ENERGY AT YUGOSLAV INSTITUTE

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700060270-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 5, 2011
• Sequence Number: 270
• Publication Date: May 3, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL IINTELLIGENNCOE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY Yugoslavia
SUBJECT Economic - Chemicals, medicine prices
Scientific - Nuclear physics, institutes
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PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED Yugoslavia
DATE
PUBLISHED 27 Dec 1951 - 20 Feb 1952
LANGUAGE Serbo-Croatian; Slovenian
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
REDUCE MEDICINE PRICES;
STUDY ATOMIC ENERGY AT YUGOSLAV INSTITUTE
MEDICINE PRICES TO BE LOWER AFTER 1 JANUARY 1952 -- Zagreb, Barba, 27 Dec 51
The federal Council for People's Health and Social Policy has completed
a revision of the regulations governing prices of medicines, by which their
prices are to be reduced effective 1 January 1952. In setting new prices, the
commission not only took into account production costs and import prices of
medicines and raw materials, but gave prior consideration to demand, setting
prices individually for each medicine.
Prices of medicines In great demand, the use of which is not limited by
prescril._ion, are decreased considerably. Aspirin tablets are to be'4 dinars
each; pyramidon, 3 dinars each; codalgine fttrade name?7, 10 dinars; sulfathiazole,
8 diners; and cofepirin rcaffeine and antipyrine?7, l3 dinars. A tube of zinc
ointment will sell for 50 dinars instead of 120; a tube of baby oil, 80 instead
of 120; boric acid vaseline ointment, 40 instead of 90; and 10 grams of camomile
tea will sell for 6 instead of 18 dinars.
Prices of medicines for chronic diseases are also to be reduced. Insulin
is to sell for less than 50 percent of its former price; reumine is being re-
duced from 300 to 200 dinars; and penicillin is to be reduced from 330 to 200
dinars for 200,000 units. Prices of imported medicines which are used in large
quantities, such as aureomycin, chloromycetin, and PAS tablets are to be priced
lower than their retail price in the countries from which they are imported.
The Ministry of Finance is to issue a regulation soon which delegates the
responsibility for setting prices for medical and laboratory equipment, sick-
room supplies, and other sanitary items to production enterprises. They are
to base prices on production costs and market conditions.
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STUDY ATOMIC ENERGY AT INSTITUTE REAR BELGRADE -- Ljubljana, LJubljanski Dnevnik,
20 Feb 52
The atomic institute at Vince, near Belgrade, is working on nuclear physics
and atomic energy along with other work. M. Cerineo is an assistant in the in-
stitute.
The institute has fully equipped laboratories. The physics laboratory has
an accelerator which can bombard atoms with 10',000 electron volts. Designed
by Engineer Grujic, who died 2 months ago, the accelerator was built in the in-
stitute's workshop.
The institut* is housed in a building which has steel doors, and concrete
walls 11 meters thick. It contains a l,500,OO0-electron-volt accelerator, with'
which Yugoslav scientists are conducting significant experiments.
Ljubljana is on the way to obtaining a modest scientific institute, where
young scientists will be able to study nuclear physics and atomic energy.
BUILD NEW DISTILLERY -- Split, Slobodna Dalmacija, 30 Dec 51
The general overhaul of equipment in the "Redeljevic" Industrial Enter-
prise in Dubrovnik was completed this year.
Construction also began on a new distillery and alcohol refinery which is
to be the sixth largest in Yugoslavia. The new distillery is to bo completed
by the beginning of the season when juniper berries and whortleberries are proc-
essed into alcohol.
The new distillery's products will be much cheaper, for it is located in a
raw material center. The new distillery will also produce alcohol from fer-
mented grain, potatoes, and similar products. At least 50 percent of fermented
products, which previously were discarded, will thus be salvaged.
"-ALKALOID" FACTORY INCREASES PRODUCTION -- Zagreb, Borba, 29 Dec 51.
Skoplje, 28 December -- On 27 December, the "Alkaloid" Factory in Skoplje
fulfilled its Five-Year Plan for production of codeine phosphate.
This year, it increased its capacity considerably, augmented its production,
adopted new work methods, and introduced uniform working procedures.
About 50 percent of the workers were given awards for fulfilling their work
as planned.
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