2023-11-10 14:58:44
ALGIERS – The Secretary General of the Ministry of Industry and Pharmaceutical Production, Drifa Khoudhir, called in Bamako (Mali) to realize inter-African partnerships in the field of the pharmaceutical industry.
Representative of the Minister of the sector, Ali Aoun, at the work of the 2nd edition of the International Health Fair “Keneya Expo2023”, which is held from November 9 to 11 in Bamako, she spoke in a speech delivered during this event, whose opening ceremony took place on Thursday.
She, on this occasion, called on “Algerian pharmaceutical operators to realize inter-African partnerships in a process of productive investments and economic integration capable of establishing a continental pharmaceutical industry guaranteeing health and pharmaceutical sovereignty in Africa”, indicates a ministry press release on Friday.
She also called for lessons to be learned from the Covid-19 pandemic which “made it possible to identify the inadequacies and limits of African health systems and which led to awareness of the need to establish a real industry local pharmaceutical company.
Ms. Khoudhir, in this context, recalled that it was thanks to its industrial fabric and the commitment of all national producers of pharmaceutical products that Algeria was able to ensure the production and availability of all means of protection and pharmaceutical products included in the Covid 19 therapeutic protocol.
She, on the other hand, insisted on “the need to move towards a fruitful coordination approach between our countries, in particular, through the creation of specialized industrial centers as well as towards the co-development of drugs, particularly those for pathologies that affect our continent”, according to the press release.
For Ms. Khoudhir, it is “today more than appropriate to operationalize the African Medicines Agency (AMA) which will allow the strengthening and development of the African pharmaceutical industry and ensure continental health sovereignty.”
She also chaired, with the Minister of Industry and Commerce of Mali, Moussa Alassane Diallo, the work of a panel organized as part of the International Health Fair, focusing on African pharmaceutical industrialization defined and perspective.
In her speech, the official reviewed the Algerian experience through the creation of a ministerial department responsible for the pharmaceutical industry which was able to put in place the legislative and regulatory framework necessary to ensure the development of the sector.
This allowed the Algerian pharmaceutical industry to achieve “a qualitative leap through the increase in the number of pharmaceutical manufacturing establishments which increased from 97 in 2019 to more than 196 establishments currently, to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. 19, and to increase the rate of coverage of the needs of the national market in pharmaceutical products and medical devices, with the ambition to see this industrial fabric grow and develop within the framework of regional and continental complementarity and integration. she added.
During the debates, Ms. Khoudhir also pleaded for a “consensual and continental approach between the different African countries capable of developing continental industry”.
She also called for the prioritization of local African production to cover the needs of continental pharmaceutical markets, in particular by removing regulatory barriers to the export of pharmaceutical products and by promoting and supporting joint productive investments between African countries. to build a continental pharmaceutical industry capable of establishing health and pharmaceutical sovereignty in Africa.
For his part, Malian Prime Minister Choguel Kokalla Maïga, in his speech to officially inaugurate the Salon works, called for the importance of relaunching a real pharmaceutical industry on the continent to serve the interests of its peoples.
Evoking at length the unwavering relations linking the two brotherly countries of Algeria and Mali and which are characterized by fraternity, solidarity and good neighborliness, he called on the industrialists of the two countries, in particular those in the pharmaceutical industry, to more convergence to launch industrial partnership projects serving both countries.
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