200K packs of penicillin to be pumped in market on Sunday

CAIRO – 15 December 2017: A total of 200,000 packs of penicillin will be pumped in the market next Sunday, said Head of the Central Administration of Pharmacy Affairs at the Ministry of Health Dr. Rasha Ziadeh.

Ziadeh asserted that the Ministry of Health will conduct regular inspections of the pharmacies across Egypt on a daily basis and assure that they have an adequate balance of medicine for all patients.

It was confirmed that the ministry has been providing 100,000 packs on a daily basis starting last Tuesday.

Spokesman of the Ministry of Health Khaled Mujahed announced on Tuesday the availability of the antibiotic penicillin on the local market following its five-month disappearance.

In a phone-in with TV show Yahdos Fi Masr (Happening in Egypt) on MBC Egypt TV channel on Tuesday, Mujahed said that the ministry stepped in to address the penicillin shortage through a raft of measures, stressing that the ministry has signed an agreement with a Chinese supplier to provide the market with one million packs of the antibiotic.