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Regulation, Reimbursement Notes From Turkey

 
• By Ahmet Sevindik

A PharmAsia News update shows Turkey has set a target to domestically manufacture 60% of the drug products used annually and 20% of medical device and equipment by an unspecified timeframe. The government also moved to offer more support into R&D for high-value biopharmaceutical products and sent a large ministerial delegation to the annual Bio Conference in San Diego as a signal of how important the sector is to its public health programs.

ISTANBUL – Turkey’s government has moved anew to kick start domestic manufacture of drugs and medical equipment as costs and shortages loom despite efforts to curb spending and reform the reimbursement process partly in response to a push by local generic makers for more clarity ([A#28140504002]).

The effort coincides with government plans to boost R&D spending across the biomedical community and as the government once again...

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