Currently, 80 to 90 percent of the medication required in Europe is produced in Asia. The EU now wants to put an end to this dependence. Production on the European continent should increase, faster approval procedures should contribute to this, according to the EU committee.
In addition to the accelerated approval procedures, the production of medicines must also be easier to support with public funds. Before the rules presented in Strasbourg on Tuesday, the European Parliament and the EU countries must agree to the EU committee’s proposal.
“Serious lack of medication”
“In recent years, Member States have been confronted with a serious lack of medication,” said the EU committee. Painkillers, antibiotics or fever apartments for children were hit.
According to the committee, there are many reasons why there have been delivery problems in the EU in recent years. These include bottlenecks in active ingredients. But that production also focuses on the problems in some countries.
80 to 90 percent from Asia
According to EU Ministers of EU health, 80 to 90 percent of medication comes from China, especially from China. The German Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach (SPD) and ten of his colleagues from other EU countries had recently warned of dangerous effects on routine interventions and actually easy to treat infections such as supply chains should be interrupted in the case of a conflict. They demand that they make parts of the billions of billions of upgrade plans for medicine safety.
Lighting for the Healthcare System
Medical staff must also be able to relieve the law. “There are people who only have fifty percent of their working hours to look at: where do I get something from, where do I get a medicine that can be used as an alternative?” If you were to move the entire production of a medicine to Europe, the money would cost, “Liese says:” But I am convinced that the health system will save costs. “
German pharmacists want alternatives themselves to proposals
The president of the Federal Association of German pharmacist associations, Gabriele Overloanting, argued for pharmacists in the future to propose alternatives for outside stock. So far, a doctor’s recipe is needed. Patients should sometimes go to the doctor and pharmacy several times before they received suitable medication. The Austrian pharmacists’ association is also longing to improve security in this country.
Source: Krone
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