First of all, hospitals and pharmacies serve different customers.
The hospital serves patients. Based on the principle of treating patients and saving lives, doctors prescribe drugs for patients with the aim of quickly and effectively curing diseases, and have high requirements on the curative effect of drugs. Therefore, the safety and effectiveness should be considered first in hospital drug use, and drugs with these two characteristics are often more complicated in materials and manufacturing processes, so the cost is higher and the price will increase relatively. The clients of pharmacies are the public. As long as you have a demand and the pharmacy has something to sell, you can buy it Pharmacies themselves will also reduce their own costs under the premise of buying and selling, and choose drugs with the same effect but lower cost.
Secondly, the operating systems of hospitals and pharmacies are different. Hospitals are social welfare institutions that implement certain welfare policies. In order to make patients feel at ease, they will make great efforts in medical facilities and medical staff. When the hospital is equipped with drugs, it will go through many links, which will increase the cost invisibly. Moreover, due to the limited government investment in hospitals, hospitals are not flexible in price. Pharmacy is an economic entity with an independent legal person, and the cost of drug procurement and operation is different from that of hospitals. You can also flexibly adjust prices and marketing strategies to achieve small profits but quick turnover.
Finally, hospitals and pharmacies have different drug structures.
Hospitals not only prescribe drugs for patients, but also need to continuously develop new drugs in order to better prevent and treat diseases, and new drugs can be effective through all-round clinical experiments. In addition, patients prescribe drugs in the hospital and get the guidance of professional doctors. Considering the cost, the state will increase the price of medicines in hospitals accordingly. In contrast, pharmacies seem to have more comparative advantages, selling more low-priced drugs and commonly used drugs to win by quantity, which makes consumers mistakenly think that the prices of drugs in pharmacies are cheaper than those in hospitals.