2023-07-02 09:20:00
Parichart Klaewplodtook, 10 Sales Specialist, Government Pharmaceutical Organization, said that today Thailand still relies heavily on imported drugs. Therefore, the big question of those involved including pharmaceutical organization Is to reduce the cost of the drug value in the country that the people and the government will have to pay from importing.
At present, one of the government policies is to contain Thai herbs in the master plan. The Government Pharmaceutical Organization has taken care of pure, high-quality herbal extracts for use in the production of herbal medicines and distribute these medicines to various hospitals across the country.
However, on the issue of drug security, it must be admitted that in the past, Thailand has mainly focused on the dimension of drug production for treatment. But the new dimension of health care according to the policy of the Ministry of Public Health consists of 4 dimensions: prevention, promotion, treatment and rehabilitation. Therefore, what the GPO will produce following this may not be a drug intended for treatment. Rather, it promotes the production of medicines or health products that focus on prevention and health promotion. This will make the loss value in the system less. Drug security will be more.
“As for the Government Pharmaceutical Organization, we now have a factory on Rama 6 Road as the first factory and a second factory at Rangsit Khlong 10. In the future, by 2024, we will move the Rama 6 production line to the Rangsit Phase 2 factory. This will increase the production capacity of the GPO by 1-fold from the present. At that time, it will give us the potential to expand production even more, whether it is pills, creams, liquids or injections.
We also have a vaccine factory in Saraburi. In the past, it has been producing COVID vaccines and influenza vaccines. And in the future, we need to monitor drug stability and the trend of vaccine trends in which direction we can help support to increase strength. to create drug security in Thailand to happen.”
While Mrs. Sirinan Tubtimthes, Director of the Herbal Product Innovation Specialization Center Thailand Institute of Scientific and Technological Research (TISTR.) expressed his opinion that Herbs are an alternative for Thai people. which according to the ancient medicinal formula that was used successively You can see that there are many medicinal recipes that use herbs as ingredients. In the past COVID situation, it can be seen that there are herbal medicines that are the protagonists to help during the emergence of new diseases. who still do not know what drug will be needed to treat
Therefore, herbs are a treatment option. And Thailand itself has many medicinal herbs and recipes that can be used. In the past, herbal medicines have been used as alternative medicines and as substitutes for current medicines. Makes Thai people easier to access medicines at a very affordable price.
Page 15, Than Sethakit Newspaper, Year 43, No. 3,901, Date 2 – 5 July 2023
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