The European Commission (EC) calls on member states, industry and healthcare as well as civil society to establish a Medicines Alliance to prevent shortages. Members, industry and healthcare as well as civil society form the Medicines Alliance to prevent shortages of important medicines. important medications.
According to a Vietnam News Agency correspondent in Europe, although the pharmaceutical sector of the European Union (EU) is developing strongly, for many years now, the EU has been facing a serious problem of drug shortages. important, especially antibiotics, as happened last winter. Many reasons for this shortage include production problems, industrial quotas, sudden increases in demand, and dependence on third countries, especially India and China, for the production of products. Active pharmaceutical ingredients, chemical raw materials and medicines.
To alleviate these shortages, on January 17, the EC called on member states, industry, health experts and civil society to join a new alliance on critical medicines. . The aim of this alliance – building on the models of the battery alliance and the critical materials alliance – is to ensure the EU’s strategic autonomy in the important pharmaceutical sector, through the development of Developing production solutions and creating favorable conditions for signing contracts and financing.
This proposal is within the framework of measures announced by the EC last October, supported by member states. In Belgium, Federal Minister of Public Health Frank Vandenbroucke made three proposals in this direction, during a ministerial meeting in May 2021 to create a solidarity mechanism, establishing a list of medicines important and develop regulations to reduce Europe’s dependence on third countries.
According to Minister Frank Vandenbroucke and European Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides, the Critical Medicines Alliance will help the EU change the way it produces and purchases medicines and seek opportunities to diversify supply chains, through the signing of strategic partnership system. Established over a five-year period, the Medicines Alliance will operate from the Spring and will make its first recommendations in the Autumn to improve the supply of vital medicines.
