A new increase in medicines has recently occurred, specifically medicines for colds, which abound in those days, as the autumnal weather and the decrease in secretions of mucous membranes help viruses penetrate the respiratory system, and the new increase ranged between 62.5 and 78%, in implementation of the Egyptian Medicines Authority’s pricing committee.
The high price of the drug Abimol, which is used as an analgesic for pain and cold
The price of Abimol, which is used as an analgesic for pain and cold, in addition to Abimol Extra 500 mg, increased from 9 pounds to 16 pounds, and the concentration of 500 mg increased from 8 pounds to 13 pounds, which is used to treat symptoms of cold and flu and analgesic for muscle, joint and back pain, and is used under supervision. medical.
The reasons for the rise in the drug Abimol, which is used as an analgesic for pain and cold
This increase comes from the companies that produce the drug in order to sustain the pharmaceutical product in the Egyptian market in light of the high production costs along with the raw materials in light of the economic crises that hit many countries as a result of the Russian-Ukrainian war.
Achieving insulin self-sufficiency
In the same context, Dr. Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, a spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Population, announced the achievement of self-sufficiency in locally produced insulin, indicating in a telephone interview to the “Tahrir Hall” program presented by Azza Mustafa that there are major directives to work on localizing the drug industry, indicating that the pandemic Corona revealed the countries that do not have the capacity to manufacture suffered during that pandemic.
The spokesperson for Health and Population indicated that 80 to 85% of medicines are manufactured locally, adding that Ahmed factories were opened to produce insulin in large quantities on an area of 3 thousand acres with the aim of producing 12 million elephants annually, which can be increased to 18 million elephants, in addition to 15 million elephants. A cartridge that holds insulin to be injected.