Dr. Mostafa Madbouly, Prime Minister, met yesterday evening with Major General Dr. Bahaa El-Din Zidan, Chairman of the Egyptian Authority for Unified Purchasing, Medical Supply and Supply, and the Medical Technology Administration, to discuss and follow up on a number of the Authority’s work files. At the beginning of the meeting, Major General Doctor Bahaa El-Din Zidan confirmed that, in implementation of Egypt’s vision of increasing Egyptian exports to African markets and translating the results of the African Medical Exhibition by enhancing trade exchange with the countries of the African continent, the Egyptian Unified Purchasing Authority took the initiative to contract to supply Egyptian pharmaceutical preparations to the country. Zambia, with a total amount of $24 million, where the first batch was shipped, and coordination is currently being made with the manufacturers to prepare and prepare the second shipment, pointing out that the Zambian side expressed its happiness in cooperating with the Egyptian side, and its appreciation for the Authority’s efforts in this regard. During the meeting, the Chairman of the Authority presented The executive position of the project to establish 6 strategic drug stores across the Republic, where he stressed that the design of these stores and the determination of their specifications are carried out according to a vision aimed at keeping in line with the actual reality, of what is being traded, and what is required to be provided strategically, in light of the authority’s dealings in providing medical products. Major General Doctor Bahaa El-Din Zidan explained, in this regard, that it was agreed to increase the number of types of items that are stored within each store, and to raise the capacity of the stores while adjusting the number of pieces that are tracked, and to gradually increase this number with the activation of the drug tracking system. The head of the authority added that it was agreed to increase the required trading capacity for the Cairo warehouse, adding the necessary surface area to accommodate its trading units, and adding an additional surface area to each of the Alexandria, Minya, Mansoura, and Qena warehouses, to accommodate the additional trading units necessary to increase the required trading capacity, and to take the necessary measures. Which allows the operating company to choose the best human resources and follow up on new requirements for operation. The Chairman of the Authority stressed that the design of the strategic drug stores and the determination of their operating system is done in a way that aims to achieve greater flexibility and effectiveness in distributing medicine, and to strive to obtain international accreditation certificates to ensure the continued quality of storage specifications, while activating the drug tracking system in the strategic stores to follow up on the stock, pointing to the work To make Egypt a regional headquarters for international organizations’ procurement in this field and obtain European accreditation

. During the meeting, the most prominent features of the plan to develop the ambulance pharmacies affiliated with the Egyptian Company for Pharmaceutical Trade, whose name was changed to “Ambulance Pharmacy 24,” were reviewed because it works to serve patients 24 hours a day. It was noted that the visual vision for those pharmacies was developed and unified. With a plan to expand geographically to achieve the largest spread of the pharmacy chain in all Egyptian governorates. Counselor Sameh Al-Khashin, the official spokesman for the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, explained that the plan that was reviewed included indicating that work is being done to implement the first phase of it, which begins by applying the “Ambulance 24” pharmacy model to 5 pharmacies that will be actually opened on November 16, 2023, and then Beginning to circulate this model in the governorates of Egypt in several stages, to be completed in December 2024. The most prominent features of the first stage of implementing the “Ambulance 24” pharmacies development plan included the indication that work is underway to develop the Ambulance 24 Ramses pharmacy to provide a decent, modern service. to the Egyptian citizen and activate the waiting service, and the trial opening of the 24th Ambulance Pharmacy in the Amiriya area in Cairo Governorate took place on the first of this October, and the trial opening of the 24th Ambulance Pharmacy in the Mansoura Governorate took place on the 16th of this October, and work is also underway to open the 24th Ambulance Pharmacy in the Assiut Governorate on November 10, 2023, and is underway. Work will be done to provide a location for the Ambulance 24 Pharmacy in Tanta Governorate. Work will also be done to develop the Ambulance Pharmacy in Alexandria and circulate the Ambulance 24 model to it. Within the framework of the development plan, coordination is being studied between the Ministry of Health and Population and the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, to propose places in the hospitals affiliated with each of them, in the governorate capitals, to establish the “Easaaf 24” pharmacy affiliated with the Egyptian Company for Pharmaceutical Trade, at the rate of one pharmacy in each governorate, in order to implement the special plan. By circulating the “Ambulance 24” pharmacies model as quickly as possible in order to serve patients in hospitals and outside them. The official spokesman for the Presidency of the Council of Ministers added that the meeting discussed the joint action plan between the Egyptian Unified Purchasing Authority and the Ministry of Health and Population. To automate warehouse movements, which takes place in two stages over a period of 6 months; The first stage includes automating the system’s cycles and warehouse procedures to control inventory, while the second stage is concerned with implementing electronic signature and sealing software and integrating it into the system through a company selected in this field, in accordance with what was studied and agreed upon in the first stage. Major General Doctor Bahaa El-Din Zidan explained that this system was designed to work in an integrated manner alongside the strategic warehouse system, to be used centrally to achieve an integrated link between all medical product distribution companies and their warehouses with the health systems operating in the health sector, in addition to activating the central tracking system to achieve Comprehensive control of the strategic inventory in strategic stores or in the warehouses of companies operating in the field, as well as the entire inventory in requesting entities or hospitals, in order to achieve comprehensive vision and the ability to control inventory and manage crises. The Chairman of the Authority also touched on the position of increasing Servier Company’s investments in Egypt. He explained that the parent company pumped an amount of about $17.9 million last September as part of its keenness to continue and increase the company’s investments in Egypt, and for the purpose of helping the company secure its dollar needs to obtain effective raw materials and continue production. Zidan added that during the previous period, the company began supplying the Egyptian market with the latest medicines used in treating tumors and used in the European market, to develop the services provided to the Egyptian citizen, as well as expanding the implementation of modern production lines in local manufacturing with the aim of increasing the localization of the local industry for most imported medicines.