Pharmacists threaten to boycott Algerian medicines and protest
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Pharmacists’ Syndicate criticized the interventions and pressures that are practice by the trade directorates on pharmacists work, calling upon the Health Ministry to put an end to these practices, particularly since the medicines market is subject to the Health Ministry and not to the Trade Ministry.
Pharmacists’ Syndicate official spokesman, Salaheddine Mennaa, told Echorouk, “Directorate of Trade has no right to monitor pharmacists work. What is happening in Constantine (eastern Algeria) from harassment that is practiced by agents of censorship, against pharmacists regarding medicines that are manufactured locally, which is unreasonable, indicating that there will be a protest and a general strike for pharmacists on March 10 in the same Wilaya, to stand up against these practices and to ask the Health Ministry to intervene. Situation continues if the protest will be transferred to the capital.”
“We will boycott the local production of medicines, if the pressures by the Trade Directorate will continue on pharmacists and their work. I wonder about the reason for censoring pharmacists’ work and asking for the benefits of the local product, at the time that the President of the Republic orders the pharmacists to get the right to obtain financial incentives to encourage the national production of grants. Pharmacists call by agents of control for bills of medicines that are locally produced is unacceptable, especially if the medicines’ market is controlled by the Health Ministry and not the Trade Ministry.”
