Paraguay Leads Regional Meeting on Medicine Supply and Technology Transfer in Mercosur

• Our country has pro tempore leadership of the bloc and will lead a meeting of health representatives from Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay that will be held today and tomorrow at the Crowne Plaza.

• One of the points of agreement aims to achieve a regional supply of serums for accidents caused by poisonous animals.

The Ministry of Public Health (Paraguay) through the General Directorate of Strategic Health Supply (DGGIES) leads a Joint Meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Intergovernmental Commission on Medicines Policies (CIPM) for the Negotiation of Medicines Prices -High-cost medicines (CAHNEG) and the Ad hoc Committee to promote the expansion of the regional productive capacity of medicines, immunity and health technologies (CAHECPR), within the framework of the activities of the Pro Tempore Presidency of Mercosur.

During the meeting, which will be held today and tomorrow at the Crowne Plaza, the strategic lines of the Intergovernmental Committee will be defined, whose aim is to close the existing gaps in the timely and universal access to medicines, vaccines and health technologies.

There are three committees that participate in workshops with representatives from the participating countries, one of which will address pharmaceutical policies; another will focus on everything related to the development of productive capacity at the Mercosur level of medicines and supplies and the third, which will work on improving prices.

One of the main points on the agenda is to achieve the agreement of ministers for the regional supply of serums for accidents caused by poisonous animals, as well as to share experiences and define activities for the transfer of technologies between member states Mercosur.

“It seemed very important to us from this meeting that we will be able to draw strategic lines that will make us improve our knowledge and manage all the information about technologies that will help us at some point to become pharmaceutical and supply agents. you have that information.” shared by member countries trying to raise prices and unify them for our country,” said Dr. Patricia Luraschi, general director of DGGIES.