AMMAN — The government’s unpaid bills to
the pharmaceutical sector amount to JD160 million, said the president of the
Pharmacists’ Syndicate, Dr. Zaid Al-Kilani, according to Al Ghad News.
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He said in a statement that
pharmaceutical companies suffer from a shortage of liquidity, which threatens
their ability to secure the healthcare sector’s needs of medicines and medical
supplies.
Kilani said the syndicate had already
contacted the government several times to ask them to pay the money they owe
pharmaceutical companies, but to date only JD20 million of that money has been paid.
He said that the period for submitting
bids for medicines to the health sector has lapsed, and pharmaceutical
companies can no longer import medicines.
Kilani said the government bears the responsibility
in the event medicines are no longer available in either the public or private
sectors.
He said that the strategic stockpile of medicines and medical supplies
has begun to run low.
He said that some public sector debts to
the sector are more than four years old, especially university hospitals.
Kilani
said that JD50 million were allocated in the budget appendix but were found not
to have been disbursed to pharmaceutical importers.
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