PRICES OF MEDICINE IN RUMANIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006700060005-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 6, 2001
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: January 17, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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Soviet medical products are widely distrusted in Rumania due to frequent
causes of poisoning which have resulted from their usea, In July 1950: about
twenty students of the LwT Faculty of the University of Bucharest died
following injections of Soviet-made liver extract.
L, ;Medicines made in the United States or of faropean make are therefore mrch
in derwndm Although prices for then very, the following appi oxinato fig?,iires
can be given
a,
Penicil
lin (100 000 units) 1,400 lei
b.
Streptc
anycin (1 gram) 1,600 lei
a.
Bayer A
spirin (20 tablets) - 300 lei
d.
Syr?tgran
(vitamin) 1,500 lei
e,,
Chiorom
ycetin 12 -10,000 lei
3., In periods of epidemic;, these prices increase considerably.,, mid prmicillin
has sold for as high ?a 5,000 lei for 100,000 units.
This document is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL In accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
Next Review Date: 2008
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