Researchers from the De La Salle University say that once effective treatments against COVID-19 become available, there will be a challenge to produce enough supply to match worldwide demand. COVID19PH
COVID-19. A nurse inserts a needle into the arm of a patient who has recovered from COVID-19 as he undergoes a procedure to donate plasma at a hospital in Manila on April 22, 2020. File photo by Maria Tan/AFP
"Discovering treatments and vaccines for COVID-19 will just be the first step. We need to prepare for the likely scenario that those pharmaceutical products will be in short supply," Tan told Rappler in an email., the top countries with pharmaceutical manufacturing plants are the United States, China, and India.
He added:"The local pharma manufacturers or subsidiaries which usually import the drug components, can make an advance and favorable arrangement with their foreign suppliers or parent companies." Yu said that the government, through the IATF or the Inter-Agency Task Force, may facilitate the seamless flow of transactions throughout the supply chain by easing restrictions on regulated chemicals, lowering or waving of import tariffs, and creating an express lane for efficient movement of materials from the ports up to their distribution points such as health centers.
"We recommend the first one so that we do not end up begging the richer countries for the drugs they've already stockpiled ahead of time," Razon said.flu drug Tamiflu"The options are naturally limited because the world is dealing with a new virus for which there is no confirmed cure and no vaccine. However, there is information available on pharmaceutical products that are being developed and tested.
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