KATHMANDU: Amid rumors that Nepal will witness a shortage of medicines following an export ban by India, Nepali medicine manufactures have said that they have enough stock for three months.
Medicine manufactures have made it clear that they have enough medicines and raw material to meet the country’s demand for three months.
India, the world’s main supplier of generic drugs, has restricted the export of 26 pharmaceutical ingredients and the medicines made from them, including paracetamol, as the coronavirus outbreak plays havoc with supply chains.
Medicine manufacturers at a press meet organized by the Association of Pharmaceutical Producers of Nepal on Friday said that pharmaceutical ingredients will be imported from countries other than India and China.
“Pharmaceutical ingredients are generally bought from India and China as it is easy for us from the business point of view. We will now import raw materials from other countries and won’t let medicine shortage happen,” the association said in a press statement.
Saying that they have been working to make Nepal self-resilient in medicines, pharmaceuticals lamented the government for failing to formulate necessary policies.
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