Medicine
Egypt is the leading Arab and African country in pharmaceutical production and marketing.
Ambassador to Dakar Khaled Aref met with Gambian ministers of health and water resources.
The forum aims to strengthen economic relations between the two countries and explore new investment opportunities in many areas of common interest.
Today’s tour comes amid a shortage of medicines in Egypt as some vital medicines for common diseases are unavailable in pharmacies like medicines for hypertension and diabetes.
The Egyptian Drug Authority confirmed that a large number of drug types have been provided in pharmacies, exceeding 500 types with a total of 200 million packages distributed to warehouses and pharmacies.
Two weeks ago, the government announced it allocated LE 7 billion to tackle these shortages, focusing on enhancing production, securing raw materials, and developing factory infrastructure
Prices of certain medicines are expected to climb as between 80-100 companies have applied to the Egyptian Drugs Authority (EDA) to up medicine prices by an average of 25-30 percent
The sector has been forced to shift transportation from sea freight to air freight due to disruptions in the Red Sea, which have doubled transportation expenses
During his special interview with "Politics Talk" program on Extra News TV channel, Minister Abdel Ghaffar said that after COVID, there is a severe shortage of doctors and medical teams in England and across different countries.
According to an unnamed government official familiar with the project, the construction operations are set to be completed within the next year
The announcement came during the activities of the 3rd exceptional conference for the parties of AMA Treaty held in Addis Ababa for three days.
Egyptian Ambassador to Cameroon Dalia Fayez met earlier this week with Secretary General of the Presidency Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh.
The WHO announced that the convoy of aid that arrived in Gaza Strip Saturday through Rafah Crossing consisted of four lorries carrying medicines and medical supplies from the organization.
Grifols Egypt is committed to developing the plasma medicine industry and achieving self-sufficiency in these medicines of high importance to the health system in Egypt.
The volume of Egyptian exports of medicines exceeded $300 million, said the Egyptian Medicines Authority Sunday.
This came as part of the activities of the Environmental Investment Week.
Khalifa said government spending on the health sector in 2019-2020 represented 33 percent of public spending against 28 percent in the previous year.
The meeting discussed the importance of applying the unified procurement mechanism to enhance the authority’s negotiating ability reduce medicine prices, the statement said, noting that unified procurement system provides a mechanism for inventory recycling to achieve “financial rationalization if the recycling operations are successful.”
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In February 2022, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced that six African countries including Egyptian Tunisia would receive “mRNA” technology to produce vaccines against the Coronavirus locally.
