The Prime Minister hasapproved the Vietnam National Strategy on Pharmacy till 2020, with avision to 2030.
According to the Government Portal, under thestrategy, domestic products will account for 80 percent of the totalmedicines consumed in the country by 2020.
The national strategysets the goal to provide enough high-quality medicines with reasonableprice and supply medicine for social policy beneficiaries, ethnicminorities, and poor people at remote and advantaged areas.
By2020, the strategy aims to provide 100 percent of medicines fortreatment and meet 20 percent of material demands of national medicineproduction. Domestically produced vaccines will be sufficient for theexpanded vaccination programme and meet 30 percent of the needs of paidvaccination.
The pharmacy industry will be orientated todeveloping the production of pharmaceutical chemistry and vaccines, andlooking to merge, acquisition and scale extension as ways to increaseits competitiveness.
The medicine distribution system will beformed modernly, professionally and effectively, covering themountainous areas in the North, Central North, Central South-CentralHighlands, South East and South West regions.
From now to2020, with a vision to 2030, the industry will strengthen the managementover medicine quality and strictly deal with the production, import,circulation, distribution and provision of fake and low-qualitymedicines.
In the future, the State will invest in projects to establish national biology and biosimilar research centres.-VNA
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