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View all search resultsPresident Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has called for a total reform of the national health system that will include self-sufficiency in the pharmaceutical industry in a bid to build national resilience against the health and economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The larger family of UGM are mourning over Iwan’s passing today since he was one of the best pharmacology experts in Indonesia,” said UGM rector Panut Mulyono during the funeral on Tuesday.
The production lines are whirling at Gilbert, one of France's main producers of sanitizing gels, in a bid to meet the soaring demand for the bottles by people hoping to fend off infection in the face of the coronavirus outbreak.
The minister made the statement as he said he saw China was temporarily unable to produce medicine because of the outbreak. Responding to the situation, Terawan urged citizens to consume modern drugs made out of natural ingredients from Indonesia.
On several occasions, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has demanded that the House’s deliberations of the job creation bill be finished within 100 working days after the lawmakers received the bill from the government.
It is more convenient to eat high-fat or spicy food or drink too much coffee and leave our gastric concerns to drugs like ranitidine. It is cheap, available at any drugstore, and can be purchased without a prescription. But this kind of mindset can also be deadly.
Fierce competition among pharmaceutical companies, heavy dependency on imported raw materials and the increasing Healthcare and Social Security Agency (BPJS Kesehatan) deficit are among challenges in the country’s pharmaceutical industry.
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