The PM has approved the Viet Nam National Strategy on Pharmacy till 2020, with a vision to 2030.
The PM has approved the Viet Nam National Strategy on Pharmacy till 2020, with a vision to 2030.
Accordingly, by 2020, domestically produced medicines will account for 80% of the total medicines consumed in the country.
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.
Vaccine production meets expanded vaccination needs
By 2020, the strategy aims to provide 100% of medicines for treatment and meet 20% of material demands of national medicine production. Domestically produced vaccines will be sufficient for expanded vaccination program and meet 30% of the needs of paid vaccination.
Pharmaceutical import limited
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, in the mountainous areas in the North, Central North, Central South-Central Highlands, South East and South West regions.
Quality guaranteed
From now to 2020, with a vision to 2030, the industry will strengthen the management over the medicine quality and deal with behaviors of producing, importing, circulating, distributing and providing fake and low-quality medicines.
In the future, the State will invest in projects to establish national biology and biosimilar research centers.
(Source:VGP)
