Supplies of everyday medicine, think pain-reliever paracetamol, face a threat.
India one of the world’s largest exporter of drugs, relies on China for 70% of its raw pharmaceutical ingredients. The Indians are not getting the ingredients because of China’s very responsible attitude of lock-down in response to the Wuhan virus, unlike the US of A which is in denial.
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Coming back to the looming shortage of supplies of paracetamol and other everyday drugs, the BBC explains:
India, which is one of the world’s largest exporter of drugs, relies on China for 70 per cent of its raw pharmaceutical ingredients. For many critical antibiotics and antipyretics — medicines that reduce fever — the dependency is almost 100 per cent, experts say.
Prices have surged in recent weeks as Chinese manufacturers have run out of supplies due to traffic restrictions and staff shortages.
There are fears of global shortages of some common drugs after India limited the export of certain medicines due to the coronavirus.
The world’s biggest supplier of generic drugs has restricted exports of 26 ingredients and the medicines made from them.
The restricted drugs include Paracetamol, one of the world’s most widely-used pain relievers.
It comes as many drug ingredient makers in China remain shut or cut output.
India’s drug makers rely on China for almost 70% of the active ingredients in their medicines, and industry experts have warned that they are likely to face shortages if the epidemic continues.
China, especially Hubei province, is critical to the global pharmaceutical supply chain. Disruptions at Chinese and Indian drugmakers will lead to drug shortages worldwide.
Since the outbreak, costs of mainstream antibiotics have risen 50% for Indian drugmakers, the world’s biggest exporter of generic drugs, the FT reports.
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“little red dot” is not jb, johor; antibiotics are prescription medicines here.