It is clear that the government wants to get out of the anger in which it got into shortage of medicines.
One of the most serious obstacles to overcome this problem has to do with the Medication distribution.
One solution would be to recruit companies that buy and distribute medicines, such as Specialized Drugs and others, but that would go against the spirit of the new government, which has not only labeled these companies corrupt, but wants to avoid the model that existed before: two or three companies that did not manufacture medicines but won all tenders . How did they do it? They agreed with the laboratories that they were going to produce enough, they arrived with commitment letters from them, and they added the distribution service, obviously, raising the price. The good: there were medicines. The bad: there were many accusations of favoritism, privileges, artificial cost, corruption in which the reflector has put the administration of the president AMLO.
The alternatives proposed by the government are to promote a large parastatal medicine distribution company or to entrust this to the Armed Forces. In addition to the imaginable inefficiencies, either option will take a long time and this costs lives.
Among specialists in these matters, it has been discussed that perhaps a much quicker solution is to mount in the distribution networks that already have experienced companies, such as DHL, FedEx and Estafeta, delineate routes to carry the shipments of medicines throughout the country and, to those medications that require special handling (such as vaccines that must be refrigerated), coordinate adapting cold boxes in some of their transport units. That could help them get out of the crisis faster.
The other is to start the voice of tendering processes for the purchase of medicines for next year, and not happen like last year when its delay deepened the shortage.
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There are more critical cases, such as cancer drugs, that have triggered a social protest in various regions of Mexico. In this case, to the delay in the tenders, to the complications in the distribution, add that the Cofepris stopped the lines of production of medicines against cancer in the only pharmaceutical company that produced them. Part of the federal onslaught against the pharmaceutical companies he considers members of the power mafia. There were other companies with permission to manufacture cancer, but they did not exercise that permission. Cofepris, apparently believing that because there were several permits, there were several producers, stopped the only company that was in effect generating cancer drugs. He put stamps and the whole thing. The subsequent disaster is that the shortage crisis broke out. Sources from Cofepris herself confess that when they realized the error, and what it was causing, they asked the pharmacist to help them solve the problem and start production again, but that the company refused, demanding that First they will remove the prohibition seals. Cofepris asked him to ignore the seals and produce the medicines. Entrapped, the matter generated rapidities between the company and the federal government, to the extent that even in the morning President AMLO made a reference to the matter.
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