Madbouly: The state’s measures contributed to significantly ending the problem of drug shortages
_ Madbouly: We are keen to provide the necessary resources to the Unified Purchasing Authority in order to meet the needs of the medical sector
Follow Dr. Mostafa Madbouly, Prime Minister The position of providing medicines and medical supplies, during a meeting held today; In the presence of Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Deputy Prime Minister for Human Development, Minister of Health and Population, Major General Dr. Bahaa El-Din Zidan, Chairman of the Egyptian Authority for Unified Purchasing, Medical Supply and Supply and the Medical Technology Department, Dr. Ali Al-Ghamrawi, Chairman of the Egyptian Pharmaceutical Authority, and Ali Al-Sisi, Assistant Minister Finance for General Budget Affairs, Brigadier General Mohamed Abdel Qawi, Secretary General of the Egyptian Unified Purchasing Authority, and officials of the relevant authorities.
During the meeting; The Prime Minister stressed the importance of closely following up on efforts to provide medicine in the Egyptian market, taking into account the success achieved in this regard,
pointing out that the measures taken by the state during the last period It contributed to significantly ending the problem of drug shortages, and returning to the stage before drug shortages.
Dr. Mostafa Madbouly pointed out the importance of adopting the use of the scientific name instead of the trade name, which helps To provide alternative medicine to citizens and meet their needs in this regard.
The Prime Minister also stressed the state’s keenness to provide the necessary resources to the Unified Purchasing Authority in order to meet the needs of the medical sector in general, and that Within the framework of the priority given by the state to the health sector; As one of the basic services provided to citizens.
For his part, the Deputy Prime Minister explained that the Ministry of Health and Population is following up on efforts to provide medicine in cooperation with the Egyptian Medicine Authority, indicating the possibility of providing medicine. Al-Masry by adopting the use of alternative medicine based on using the scientific name instead of using the commercial name of the medicine.
He confirmed that the Ministry of Health and Population has already begun to implement the use of the scientific name of the medicine instead of using The trade name, which helps provide alternative medicine to citizens. Unified to strengthen the pharmaceutical supply chain, to ensure a strategic reserve that supports the country’s pharmaceutical needs in the short term, as well as enhancing the supply of raw materials related to the pharmaceutical industry to support its localization locally, with the transfer of technology to build a strong and sustainable industrial base.
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Dr. Ali Al-Ghamrawi also stressed the efforts of the Egyptian Medicine Authority to follow up and ensure the sustainability of the availability of medicine in the Egyptian market, indicating that these efforts were crowned by the Authority’s success in providing about 95% of the Egyptian medicine in the market, which enabled the return To the stage before the drug shortage.
During the meeting, the Secretary General of the Egyptian Unified Purchasing Authority presented a report on the coordination efforts taking place between various parties to manage the necessary needs for pharmaceutical products, as well as the inputs for the industry. The medicine and its localization locally, in addition to other medical supplies, serums, vaccinations, blood products, infant formula, and some medical and laboratory devices.
