03:27 PM
Tuesday, 06 August 2024
Books – Ahmed Gomaa:
Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Minister of Health and Population, said that the Medical Professions Company is making all the preparations and started in 1984 through 4 factories for heart medicines, antibiotics, and insulin .
He said, at the press conference currently held at the headquarters of the Professional Medical Company, that Ecadima exports products to 80 countries and produces about one billion package out of the 4 billion that Egypt consumes every year, indicating that Egypt has been affected in the past year. with the change in the price of the work.
The Minister of Health and Population pointed out that Egypt produces 91% of its needs in Egypt, and that it is on the way to cooperation to improve the pharmaceutical industry that has imported from abroad to be produced locally, indicating that Egyptian production depends on the production of goods from abroad.
Abdel Ghaffar announced that the drug crisis has started to end, with companies reaching the appropriate storage level and factories working at full capacity to feed the market with all the medicines and their contradictions, noting that all companies that incorporate began to do so after the money was available.
The Minister of Health called on citizens not to stockpile medicines, noting that 350,000 packages were pumped within 48 hours and that 900,000 packages will be imported for distribution on the market, indicating that there is no complete self-sufficiency of insulin medication.
He pointed out that the Acdima factory is one of the largest insulin production factories and that its capacity reaches 18 million packages per year, in addition to the Sedico company that produces 4 million per year and its needs 27 million portfolios per year, but it is influenced by the companies. the importation of the raw material resulted in its unavailability.
He noted that some patients believe that the local medicine is not as effective as the imported one, and this is wrong, because the raw material comes from the same companies and that the local medicine is produced effectively and efficiently, and the Egyptian Medicines Authority is responsible. to ensure the effectiveness of the medicine.
He explained that the drug crisis is on the way to be solved, and within the next 3 months there will be progress, and production lines have started working at full capacity, and the citizen will feel this past few weeks.
2024-08-06 12:27:00
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