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This is Daniel Rosal here I want to do a video today showing how to look up if a drug is Available in Israel a prescription medication now the reason I do these videos any time I figure out how to do something on the internet that might be of use to other olim Hadashim other English speakers in Israel future English speakers Maybe you're gonna watch this video in two years time If there's a chance that this information is going to be useful to somebody I take the few minutes It takes me to record a little screencast and put that up to YouTube Hoping it's gonna be helpful now What I want to show today is how to check if a medication is available in Israel now The reason I'm doing this is because it's actually quite useful to know and all the time You come across people asking on various Facebook for is such and such a drug Available in Israel the second thing I'm going to show in this video is how to look up the cost of that medication With a cupat hulim. So if you're with let's say cupat hulim Maccabi I'm gonna show how to look that up and you'll see how much that drug will cost now There's three other cupat hulim health maintenance organizations in Israel. There's also clalit There's also may ocher it. There's also lay umit. Now. I'm not in those cupat hulim So I don't know the process hence. I'm not going to show the process I do really really like Maccabi and I take every opportunity to Recommend them to other English speakers By and large. I've had excellent experiences with Maccabi So let me show you now jump into the magar hat to folks. I'm just going to take off my my Google translate thing. I was just popping up here. So this is the Israeli drug registry now the URL how to access the site It's Israel drugs health gov dot ill. So this is an official Portal if you will maintained by the Ministry of Health And So you don't have to it's not a third-party source. This is an official government database as such So always good to try to get the information officially if possible So what I want to show I'm gonna look up two drugs what first drug I'm gonna look up is a drug that I've taken at the moment and actually I just Looked up the drug registry to see if a different formulation is on the market here and it's not so that drug is well buterin the second drug I'm going to look up is a much more more commonplace drug. I'm at Brazil, which is just a Proton pump inhibitor used for stomach acid tons and tons of people take that drug So I'm gonna do one less common drug and one more common drug now The things you might want to the information you'll get from this is a number of pieces of potentially useful information The first is well is this drug licensed for use in Israel? So that's the first thing you should be able to answer here If it's not if it doesn't appear it means it is going to be harder if it's not there I've heard that there is a special mechanism for importing Specific medications as a non-healthcare professional. I don't know about that I'm not going to go into that but the shira shiransky project And navigating the health care system in Israel Facebook groups might be good resources in that respect So I'll put a link in the description to them If you're looking for something more conventional You'll find out number one if the drug exists in Israel number two at which dosages the drug exists in Israel number three At which Formulations the drug so sometimes like in the case of well buterin you have an instant release sustained release and an extended release formulation And number four you'll be able to get the patient information leaflets if you lose them There's actually a lot of info you can get just by using this thing So the if you're looking for a drug and by the way, you'll also be able to see if it's prescription only or over the counter And it's always more useful to search by the active ingredients So drugs have an active and drugs have trade names and trade names tend to differ depending on where you are in the world So well buterin is boo boo. Boo propry on so be you be boo, sorry be you P. R. Boo prop We on okay, so I as you can see there's like an autocomplete thing going on here And I got as far as a few letters and thankfully it has it so let's do a search And let's see what the situation is regarding people be you propry on So as you can see it's returned three results and what can be seen here is that there's a There's the extended release. It's called an Israel XR in other countries. It's called XL. I don't know why There we have an Israel our doctors have in Israel the 300 milligram and the 150 milligram formulation by Glaxo Smith Klein. There's also a 75 and 450 Milligram in some geographies. There's also a sustained release one in some geographies and neither exists here And in addition to Glaxo Smith's clients you can see here shame baal rishum the license holder is GSK their Israeli subsidiary So we have both Glaxo Smith's clients a hundred and fifty and three hundred milligram well-butterned and We have Zeiban, which is a trade name of the same drug and that's in the one hundred and fifty so both of those and even have a little Picture here of the product labeling in and that's actually exactly how it looks when you pick it up in the pharmacy here So if I were to go into let's say the 150 milligram formulation, I'm just going to click on the Pratim Nosfim and You have here a veritable wealth of information some of this Definitely intended for doctors the method of administration per us taken by my this much I know But you can find out for instance when it's licensed with the with misrata a buri ut is set to expire in this case in January of 2024 Israel is importing well-butterned from this manufacturer located in Spain. This is its full drug registration number and One thing I must say and the reason I make in this video to showcase this is that I think Israel Really really excels in a few things Israel is falls down in a few things One of the things that excels out of my opinion is digitizing information This is a like this is a tremendous resource of information that anybody Anybody can access so let's just go back here as you have in in this you have information for doctors This is the first one alone Lorofei alone less often less often Everett this is information for the consumer in Hebrew in other words a patient information leaflet I'm not sure if it's alone or alone. I need to add this to my morphics list alone less often by Angliette and the patient information leaflet in English and the date that it was added so you can see these were actually very recently updated so in the prescribers information You can see this is in this is the information that's intended for the doctors And they're just explaining that there's Available this is applies to the hundred and fifty and three hundred Milligram formulations and if we go into The patient information leaflet in Hebrew We have the patient information leaflet in Hebrew and if we click into the patient information leaflet leaflet in English We have the patient information leaflet in English So that can be just useful if you know you throw away your your your the thing that comes with the medication now Something that you did notice there's even more details that I'm not going to go into here It really really does go on and all everything you might want to Want to know about it About the drug here and it's this is really doctor information stuff So I don't I don't want to delve too deep But this information that I've shown so far is actually useful for patients to know firstly if the drug is licensed How long it's licensed for even where Israel is getting it from in case there are supply chain disruptions It's kind of handy to know as well as these documents. Now. Let me just jump back There's one more useful thing you can find out here and that is that if it's in Sal Habri ut now the Sal Habri ut Which translates in English to the drug basket. This is basically the medications that Israel has determined are Very important or you know, they're not kind of luxury medications or second line These are like the top medications and these are the ones the government is Subsidizing so you may have noticed that well butrin was not included and that's not surprising because it's kind of a second line agent for depression and For smoking cessation, but if we take a meprosal, which is really really much more common place so if I'm going to go for hippos again and You can see we have a few things here that are available firstly Meprosals in Sal Habri ut so you can see the tick mark here There's also it's also available as a meprodex in 10 milligram 20 and 40 milligram capsules And it's also available in omepra, which are actually the capsules. I'm currently getting off this medication And there's also meprosal. So again, you can just see very easily if it's in Sal Habri ut and which Strengths of that medicine are available in Sal Habri ut. All that information is Provided there now. I did say the second part of this video. I'd be showing how to figure out How much so once we know that it's in Sal Habri ut the next question is well, how much does your does your health? Maintain into organization your coupat holim charge for that medication. So Maccabi have another look up. It's called a Rishimat at Rufot la chevre Maccabi the list of medications from a cabbie members So let's go for it. Well, butron again. Well, butrin again and As we expected there is the hundred and fifty and three hundred milligrams tablets in 30 30 tablets And we can see basically how much Maccabi is giving you a discount now You can see here Michir le Michiron le Sarchan the consumer price. So this is kind of the the key information here 137 just short of 134 shackles actually for the 300 milligram tablets and it's 87 point three three For the hundred and fifty milligram tablets. You can see basically not only if it's available You can also see how much you're going to be paying for that medication There's actually a total wealth of information available there if you're looking for it really really useful You know, don't go too deep into the doctor stuff That's intended for doctors But if you just want to see if it exists in the country what form exists in the country what the trade names are in Israel You should be able to get all that information from the drug registry website Thanks for watching if you'd like to get more videos about life in Israel technology and other subjects Please feel free to subscribe to this YouTube channel