“A comprehensive supply strategy is needed to ensure a long-term supply of medicines.”
Vienna (OTS) – “In the Corona tunnel vision, the European Union and our federal government and thus also the Ministry of Health have simply failed in terms of drug supply,” judged FPÖ health spokesman NAbg. Mag. Gerhard Kaniak the massive shortage of medicines in Austria. “Due to globalization, the constant urge to maximize profits and increasing cost pressure from social security, the EU and Austria have allowed the pharmaceutical industry to outsource production to Asia. Corona then hit the supply chain problem due to production failures and restrictions with massive consequences – just to name one big problem. Almost 4 years ago, the ordinance to ensure the supply of medicines was presented, but it has been proven to have done nothing, and was even counterproductive in some cases. Instead of distracting people from their own failures with senseless regulations and finger-pointing, what is needed is an action plan. We will present this this week!” announced FPÖ health spokesman NAbg. Mag. Gerhard Kaniak.
“But putting the sole blame on the pharmaceutical industry is just a diversion by the Ministry of Health. Because not only the strategic planning, but also the market surveillance failed,” he countered the Director General for Public Health in the Ministry of Health, Katharina Reich, who said on the ORF that it was the pharmaceutical industry’s job to make provisions for the respective winter season and that they had miscalculated . “A comprehensive supply strategy is needed to ensure a long-term supply of medicines and no announcement policy intended to play down one’s own failures and omissions,” Kaniak concludes.
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