Medicines produced in Georgia confiscated from pharmacies in Russian-occupied Tskhinvali region
The sale of Georgian-made products, including medicines is prohibited by a resolution of the de-facto government in the Russian-occupied Tskhinvali region, which was adopted in 2006. Photo: RFE/RL.
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Two pharmacies in the Russian-occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region had a number of Georgian-labeled medicines confiscated by the de-facto Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tskhinvali region, reports Radio Liberty.
The sale of Georgian-made products, including medicines, is prohibited by a resolution of the de-facto government in the Russian-occupied Tskhinvali region, which was adopted in 2006.
RFE/RL reports that local doctors in the Tskhinvali region prescribe medicines which are produced in Georgia, as there is no quality control mechanism in South Ossetia.
This is not the first case of pharmacies undergoing inspections and confiscations of Georgia-made products in the Russian-occupied territory.
The resolution forbids the import and sale of meat, alcohol, non-alcoholic beverages, mineral water and other allegedly ‘low-quality’ foods from Georgia.
President of Georgia Salome Zurabishvili has called upon the international community to react to the violation of elementary humanitarian principles in the Russian-occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region after the confiscation and prohibition of Georgian-labeled medicines from the occupied territory.
Tamar Gigauri, 60, who received heavy injuries after falling into a well of seven meters deep in Georgia’s Russian-controlled Akhalgori district in early November of 2019 has only today been allowed to leave the district to receive necessary treatment on the Tbilisi-administered territory.
The so-called border between the Georgian occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region and the rest of Georgia has reopened after about a two-month closure, the European Union Monitoring Mission head to Georgia Erik Hoeg has confirmed.
60-year-old woman Tamar Gigauri fell into a well of seven meters deep in Georgia’s Russian- occupied Akhalgori district yesterday, but the Tskhinvali occupation regime is not allowing her family to transfer the woman to a Tbilisi hospital. Ketevan Tsikhelashvili, Georgian Minister of Reconciliation and Civil Equality, urged all decision-making bodies to guide by humanitarian principles and not to endanger the health of the injured woman from Akhalgori region.
Georgian Foreign Ministry David Zalkaliani has stated that the humanitarian crisis in Georgia’s Russian-occupied regions [of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali] is one of the major challenges for the government, responding to the recent death of a woman in Tskhinvali due to the closed ‘checkpoint” with the breakaway region. He again raised the issue while meeting with the US Department of States Special Envoy and Coordinator of the Global Engagement Center Lea Gabrielle earlier today.
Medicines imported from Georgia have again been confiscated from a pharmacy in the Russian-occupied Tskhinvali region by the de-facto Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tskhinvali region, reports RES news agency.
There is not enough food in Georgia’s Russian-controlled Tskhinvali region, with dairy products and children’s food still in particular deficit. It has been more than two weeks since food has not entered from Russia into the region due to ‘certain, technical problems,’ while the de facto authorities illegally closed crossing points with the rest of Georgia in early September of 2019.