Algeria on the verge of medicine crisis

Algeria suffers from a shortage of birth control pills including Microval and Cerazette which are very efficient for women after giving birth recently, said chief of chemists’ national union.

• “Another list of medicines is absent in Algeria including Adepal and Eval,” Messaouad Belamiri told Echorouk.
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• He believes that the Algerian market will face a real medicines crisis as importers and some medicine companies warned of coming shortage.
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• “The shortage will touch birth control pills, some eye medicines, ointments and other essential medicines for chronic diseases.”
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• The union’s chief also said birth control pills share in the medicines market is estimated at 5 percent and many women in Algeria use them instead of other means to control birth.