Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 May 2020
Pharmaceutical giant’s plan to end Australia’s reliance on Indian and Chinese medicines after COVID-19
2 May 2020 - Australia’s dangerous dependence on India and China to make vital medicines for the sick has come to a head, and could end with plans to make more drugs here.
Australians struggling to get prescriptions filled as drug supply from China and India is disrupted by COVID-19 could be helped by a plan to build a pharmaceutical manufacturing hub in Australia by 2022.
The plan before the government’s National COVID-19 Co-ordination Commission would end Australia’s reliance on India and China for our medicines, create jobs during the COVID-19 recovery and build a new export industry.
