12:09 p.m
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Books – Ahmed Gomaa:
Dr. Ali Aouf, Head of the Pharmaceuticals Department at the Federation of Chambers of Commerce, said that the situation in the pharmaceutical market has improved in recent days, with many of the “deficiencies” being supply and additional volumes pumped.
Auf said in statements to Masrawy: “Things have improved a lot in the last months, and the percentage of defects given is around 80%, and the defects will go remaining to be given next month. “
Last May, the Department estimated the shortage of nearly a thousand medicinal products according to the experimental names, and at that time they requested the intervention of “concerned authorities” to prevent the crisis from getting worse, and take steps to increase prices to allow the production of these items without the factories losing.
The Pharmaceutical Authority of Egypt announced that additional quantities of important pharmaceutical preparations will be pumped, about 81.6 million packages of 136 preparations, mainly insulin medicines, treatments for heart disease, gastritis, tumors, and ICSI medications, this August.
Aouf pointed out that the prices of around 400 types of medicine have increased in the past weeks, stressing that the Drug Authority is working to approve a gradual increase in prices based on the -submitted applications. So that you do not cause a “panic” in the pharmaceutical market.
Dr. Ali Al-Ghamrawi, the head of the Medicines Authority of Egypt, previously said, in response to Masrawy’s question, that the plan to move drug prices includes 3,000 medicinal preparations out of 15,000 medicines that circulate in the Egyptian market.
Al-Ghamrawi explained that several dimensions are taken into account when dealing with the drug file, importantly, there is no specific percentage of increase in these items, but each item is reviewed individually according to the percentage of the dollar part, as well as taking into account the social aspect, as well as maintaining the continuity of work Pharmaceutical companies and factories.
In a related context, the head of the Pharmaceuticals Department explained that the meeting of investors in the pharmaceuticals sector with Lieutenant General Kamel Al-Wazir, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Transport , “an encouragement and confidence to pump in more investments,” saying “the Minister is supportive of the industry and he listened to the problems and challenges facing investors in this sector, whether in terms of to grant land or obtain licences. “
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