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– The head of the National Federation of Pharmacists and the spokesman of the Algerian Federation of Pharmaceutical Products, Dr. Abdelwahed Karrar, revealed Wednesday in the program "Guest morning" Channel I that drugs for the treatment of cancer would be manufactured in Algeria at 100% from the year to come.
Algerian farmers are earning $ 2 billion a year in drugs, said Dr. Karrar, an indicator of the development of the local pharmaceutical industry, which will start producing cancer drugs as early as next year.
Dr. Abdel-Wahid Karrar said that Algerians consume 420 million boxes a year out of a total of 730 million, suggesting that the local product is of high quality and, if not, the problems and complications of the patient health.
In this context, he pointed out that 90 Algerian factories were producing different types of drugs pending the completion of other factories after having accredited 150 products from the Ministry of Health, Population and Hospital Reforms, highlighting the role of public authorities in the protection of locally produced medicines by reducing the importation of drugs of different types. Permit to cover the national market at 50%.
He pointed to the export of 15 pharmaceutical factories to African markets up to now, which is not a sufficient index in relation to the size of the capacity.
Regarding the cost of drugs consumed, Dr. Karrar said that the Algerian citizen consumes $ 80 a year against a world average of $ 127, noting that the price of drugs in Algeria is the cheapest in the region, according to results of a study conducted by the World Bureau. "From next March.
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