Local companies fulfill 90% of Egypt's needs of medicinal drugs: MP

CAIRO – 5 November 2022: Head of the Healthcare Committee at the House of Representatives Ashraf Hatem told Al Watan newspaper Saturday that Egypt has no shortage in medicinal drugs and that local companies fulfill 90 percent of needs.

Presidential Adviser for Health and Preventive Affairs Dr. Mohamed Awad Taj El-Din stated in March that Egyptian pharmaceutical companies had not been affected by the Russian-Ukrainian crisis.

“The companies always have strategic reserves of pharmaceutical materials and we have a sufficient supply for local production,” he clarified, adding that the government would suspend medicine exports, if the local market experiences a shortage.

Chairman of the Medicinal Drugs Authority Tamer Essam declared in January that Egypt’s exports of medicines had unprecedentedly risen by 35 percent.