Exceeded the national market coverage bPharmaceutical products The local rate reached 80 percent at the end of last year, which enabled the drug import bill to be reduced to $450 million, after it had exceeded $1 billion in 2020, while the production rate of various pharmaceutical materials reached 100 percent, of which 30 percent were generic medicines.
a statement Minister of Pharmaceutical IndustryWassim Qwaidari, about the efforts of the higher authorities to remove some administrative restrictions sector by sector, restrictions that he said were the biggest obstacle preventing the achievement of the desired goals.
This came during a hearing organized by the Ministry of Health, Labor, Social Affairs and Professional Training in the National People’s Assembly, for the Minister of Pharmaceutical Industry yesterday, where he began his presentation of the reality of the pharmaceutical industry before the members of the aforementioned committee by saying that since the establishment of the Ministry of Pharmaceutical Industry in 2020, the engine of production and manufacturing of local medicines has begun to revive from year to year, and with this recovery the import bill for various medicines has witnessed a significant decline since that year until now, which confirms the effectiveness of the strategy that the government has adopted towards… The pharmaceutical sector, a policy that led to achieving self-sufficiency in pharmaceutical products, and thus the aforementioned ministry was able to raise the challenge and control the pharmaceutical market, which went through complex stages, according to a member of the government, who said that the priorities of his sector are to ensure pharmaceutical security and with it health security.
According to the same official in the governmentThe number of institutions active in the field of production and manufacture of various medicines has reached 250 institutions, which has enabled the drug import revenue to be reduced from 1.5 billion dollars five years ago to 450 million late last year, indicating that the localization of the pharmaceutical industry has achieved the desired goals of the state, which is now betting on exporting its products to various African countries, and thus working to make it an alternative, in addition to the agricultural sector, to the fuel sector in the long term. Nearby.
In the opinion of Minister Nassim Kouedri, the drug import bill began to decline since 2023, with the percentage of decline in that year reaching 6.1 million dollars, then in the following year the decline continued at a positive rate until it reached 51 million dollars in 2025, as a result of the policy pursued by the state, as well as the interest that President Tebboune pays to the pharmaceutical industry sector, and the bet on the complete elimination of the drug import bill.
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