Professor El Hedia Mansouri, Deputy Director of the General Directorate of Pharmacy and Health Equipment at the Ministry of Health, said today, Sunday, that medicines are available in Algeria at a rate of 85%, saying that 2023 will be the year of digitization of health.
In statements on the waves of the national radio, Mansouri highlighted the improvement of the drug situation in Algeria, where the rate of provision of medicines was improved from 60 to 85 percent, explaining that the fluctuation that characterized the previous period had external causes related to the Corona pandemic, while the internal reasons were related to the course of acquisition and procedures. legal process that took time.
The first guest noted the Ministry of Health’s adoption of a seven-pronged roadmap based on the provision of medicines, human and material resources, structures, information organization, and others, in conjunction with activating digitization and regulatory texts.
The spokeswoman focused on the fact that the World Health Organization lists 2,400 medicines, leaving the identification of essential medicines to the specifics of each country, explaining that the list of essential medicines pertains to chronic and serious diseases, such as vaccines.
Mansouri stressed that “the price has no consideration in including any drug in the list of essential drugs,” adding that the Ministry of Health is betting on a strategy to improve drug availability and health care, and is working on digitizing the path of pharmaceuticals in hospital institutions and pharmacies.
Mansouri announced that 2023 will be the year of digitization of the health sector, noting that the project started in the last semester of 2022 and is in remarkable progress. She instructed that the General Directorate of Pharmacy and Health Supplies is keen to improve preventive maintenance of equipment, in conjunction with allocating financial covers for the acquisition of diagnostic devices and laboratory equipment. .
And the same official continued, “We are counting on the rational and effective use of medicines, so we are continuing to train and qualify hospital pharmacists and private pharmacists.”
On the other hand, Mansouri denied the existence of studies proving the excessive use of medicines and antibiotics by citizens, and noted that the phenomenon of prescriptions without medical prescriptions is global, and does not concern Algeria only, but it must be warned against the excessive consumption of antibiotics and sensitive drugs such as “paracetamol” tablets, and accordingly it relied on The Ministry takes measures and programs to reduce the phenomenon, within the context of health awareness.
Mansouri acknowledged the existence of “adulterated pharmaceutical materials” that are illegally marketed on social networks, noting that there are laws framing the dispensing of medicines inside pharmacies, and preventing the marketing of pharmaceutical materials outside them.
Mansouri ended up reassuring cancer patients of the availability of medicines, including chemical medicine, and revealed that Algeria had acquired, starting this year, innovative medicines, which fall within the so-called “precision medicine”, and these medicines will be available starting from the coming weeks, and she also confirmed that rare disease medicines It will always be available.
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