Zim pharma companies call for government intervention on cheap imports

Zimbabwean drug companies have appealed to the government to look into lessening the country’s reliance on imported pharmaceutical goods as they are killing the local industry.

Harare-based daily newspaper, Financial Gazette, quoted the marketing director for local drug producer Datlabs, Clever Mugadza, as saying that Zimbabwean firms supplied only 7% of pharmaceutical products to the local market that distributed US$325 million worth of drugs last year.

"We can potentially supply around 60% of the medicines registered in this country," said Mugadza.


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