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PZPPF in Brussels about critical medicines

MedExpress Team

Medexpress

Published Feb. 20, 2025 07:42

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- Blocking the supply of medicines and their components from outside Europe can be used as a geopolitical tool to destabilize the EU. We must realize that such actions can escalate conflicts and paralyze health systems. Therefore, a special EU pharmaceutical security fund is urgently needed - Grzegorz Rychwalski, vice president of National Drug Manufacturers, appealed in Brussels on February 19 during a meeting of EU health ministers.

During the conference "Critical Medicines for Health Security - Current Challenges and Future Directions," health ministers, representatives of the European Commission, the European Parliament, the pharmaceutical industry and patient organizations discussed the availability of critical medicines.

The meeting organized under the Polish Presidency of the Council of the EU on the Critical Medicines Act was attended by the ministers or deputy ministers of health of Belgium, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Spain, Germany and Lithuania.

Deputy Health Minister Marek Kos stressed at the outset that not long ago Europe and the US produced 90% of the active substances used ...

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