Head of the Healthcare Committee at the House of Representatives Ashraf Hatem said Saturday that Egypt has no shortage of medicinal drugs and that local companies fulfill 90 percent of needs.
“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.
On the other hand, Chairman of the Medicinal Drugs Authority
Tamer Essam declared in January that Egypt’s exports of medicines had
unprecedentedly risen by 35 percent.
Source: Egypt Today
