Prime Minister ratifies National Strategy on Pharmacy
The Prime Minister has
approved the Vietnam National Strategy on Pharmacy till 2020, with a
vision to 2030.
According to the Government Portal, under the
strategy, domestic products will account for 80 percent of the total
medicines consumed in the country by 2020.
The national strategy
sets the goal to provide enough high-quality medicines with reasonable
price and supply medicine for social policy beneficiaries, ethnic
minorities, and poor people at remote and advantaged areas.
By
2020, the strategy aims to provide 100 percent of medicines for
treatment and meet 20 percent of material demands of national medicine
production. Domestically produced vaccines will be sufficient for the
expanded vaccination programme and meet 30 percent of the needs of paid
vaccination.
The pharmacy industry will be orientated to
developing the production of pharmaceutical chemistry and vaccines, and
looking to merge, acquisition and scale extension as ways to increase
its competitiveness.
The medicine distribution system will be
formed modernly, professionally and effectively, covering the
mountainous areas in the North, Central North, Central South-Central
Highlands, South East and South West regions.
From now to
2020, with a vision to 2030, the industry will strengthen the management
over medicine quality and strictly deal with the production, import,
circulation, distribution and provision of fake and low-quality
medicines.
In the future, the State will invest in projects to establish national biology and biosimilar research centres.-VNA