Starting base drugs in many places to supplement local characteristics or change market pattern

On August 1, the Chongqing Municipal Health Bureau issued a notice on its official website on the application of the city's supplementary essential drug catalogue, requiring drug manufacturers to make an application before August 6 The notice "time is pressing, quota is limited, fax form" is interpreted by the media as a priority for local enterprises in Chongqing Market analysts believe that the supplement of local basic drugs will have a great impact on the current pharmaceutical market pattern Previously, the supplement catalogue published by Qinghai and Guangdong not only expanded significantly, but also showed "local characteristics" to varying degrees, which is difficult to form a check and balance on the interest chain of "supporting medicine with drugs" and higher drug prices Deng, who is in charge of the basic medicine supplement work in Chongqing Health Bureau, told the daily economic news that local enterprises have no preferential treatment and all work will be carried out under the relevant requirements of the state Chongqing started the local base drug supplement work, which was stagnant in the first half of the year, and changed dramatically in the second half of the year On August 1, Chongqing Municipal Health Bureau issued a notice requiring all drug manufacturers to apply for the city's supplementary base drug catalog products before August 6 According to media reports, on July 31, Jiangxi issued a notice to supplement the base drug in the form of internal documents Qinghai and Guangdong announced the local supplementary catalogue on July 1 and 4, respectively The reporter learned that at many meetings in the first half of this year, the national health and Family Planning Commission clearly required the provinces to mainly carry out the "look back" work in the first half of this year, not busy to supplement the catalogue, and issued the "look back" work plan for grass-roots drug supplement, which clearly pointed out that at present, the number of supplementary drugs in various regions is generally too large At present, most provinces have completed the work of "looking back", and the work of base drug supplement has entered the stage of variety selection or catalogue discussion Deng said that the city's efforts to supplement the list of essential drugs are still in the stage of enterprise application, and the final list will be determined according to relevant principles The official website of Chongqing Health Bureau elaborated the above "principles" in detail, including seven detailed rules such as "supplement the national essential drugs catalogue 2012 and Chongqing supplementary drugs Catalogue 2010, and conform to the diagnosis and treatment scope and service function of the basic medical and health institutions in Chongqing" It is worth noting that since the application date of the enterprise is only 4 working days as of August 6, according to the media, many local pharmaceutical enterprises in Chongqing have received the fax sent by the Health Bureau before the notice on the official website, questioning their priority to local enterprises "The application time left for the enterprise is relatively short, mainly because the time required by the leaders is relatively early According to this schedule, the time required for each link is very tight, including the time left for our post-processing, which is also very short At present, many people have been transferred to work overtime." Deng said The person also stressed that according to the reporting time stipulated by the Bureau, both local and foreign enterprises are well prepared "The information we require to submit is very simple As long as the enterprise determines the reported drug category, it can prepare all the information in one day There is no priority for local enterprises." Although the above-mentioned people of Chongqing Municipal Health Bureau denied the question of "priority of local enterprises", many people in the industry believe that it is customary to "favor" local pharmaceutical enterprises by adding local drug base catalogue When the reporter inquired about the list of basic medicine supplements in Qinghai Province, he also found that the Tibetan medicine supplements were obvious, and the Tibetan medicine with local characteristics expanded from the original 20 kinds to 60 kinds "Tibetan medicine is a major feature of Qinghai's pharmaceutical industry The support of basic medicine supplement to Tibetan medicine is good for local pharmaceutical manufacturers, including Qinghai gelatin and other local Tibetan medicine listed companies will benefit." Said a manager of a large pharmaceutical company in Chongqing In Guangdong basic medicine supplement catalogue, the proportion of traditional Chinese medicine varieties is also large, and 15 traditional Chinese medicine injections are included, but in the new national basic medicine catalogue, there is no new traditional Chinese medicine injection varieties "It's not surprising that Guangdong is hot and humid all the year round, and Guangyao group and other pharmaceutical companies are making traditional Chinese medicine, which is rich in resources." Said the person "The quota of basic medicine supplement is limited, and local enterprises are given priority in all regions, which is beneficial to promoting the development of local medicine industry and other aspects." The above managers of Chongqing pharmaceutical enterprises are frank However, he said he did not know whether his company received the fax before the notice was released on the official website of Chongqing Health Bureau In fact, the national health and Family Planning Commission has also explicitly required all regions to ensure that the varieties included in the supplement scope not only meet the requirements of selection principles, but also have local control characteristics "We will determine according to the principle of basic drug selection, but at the same time, we will also conform to the disease spectrum of Chongqing and the medication habits of primary medical institutions, but this does not mean that local enterprises will be given priority, and other enterprises will also produce similar drugs, which will be included in the selection." Said Deng "Under the premise of taking local drug demand as the leading factor, there are more local enterprises entering the market, which will not have a great impact on the market, but if taking local interests as the leading factor, it will destroy the market competition order." Said Zhou Juyong, an investor who has studied the pharmaceutical industry for many years.