NEW HEMOFARM PREPARATIONS TO APPEAR SOON

Economist Media Group Conference
– Pharmacy and Healthcare – Trends and Perspectives
URGENT SUPPORT TO LOCAL PHARMACY
Prof. Dragomir Marisavljević made an appeal on behalf of the Council of producers, wholesale pharmacies and importers of
medicaments and medical preparations of the Chamber of Economy of Serbia for the disparity in the prices of medicaments
to be eliminated, then for the necessity to pass non-existent laws and acts, for sanction and strict observance of all provisions
of laws on medicaments, amendments and additions to laws on medicaments in accordance with the EU directives, credit
and other measures of export incentives and for penalising disloyal competition.
The first regional annual conference: ''Pharmacy and
Healthcare – Trends and Perspectives'' in the
organization of the Economist Media Group was held
on Wednesday, October 17. The Conference
comprised three panels: Pharmaceutical Regulations –
Local Regulations and European Standard, Pharmacy
and Business and the last panel Trends and Standards
in Pharmaceutical Industry.
Moderator Milena Radojičić, the advisor of the
director for the Agency for Medicaments and
Medical Preparations of Serbia for regulations issues
and panel members: Tomica Milosavljević, the
Minister of Health in the government of the Republic of
Serbia, Predrag Bubalo, the Minister of Trade, Tomislav Solarović, the ALIMS director, Jacques Morenas, the French
Agency for Medicaments, Svetlana Vukajlović, RZZO (The Republic Institution for Healthcare Insurance) director, Dragomir
Marisavljević, vice-president of Hemofarm and president of the Council of the Group of Producers of Medicaments,
Aleksandar Pravdić, director of Galenika and Ramo Bralić, the director of the Republic Fund for Healthcare Insurance of
Montenegro participated in the first panel, in which there was discussion about the government strategy in the development
of the local pharmaceutical industry, implementation of the regulations on the existing products, comparison of the local
and foreign pharmaceutical regulations, financing of the pharmaceutical healthcare protection.
The second panel was led by the economic expert Danko Đunić, while the panel members were: Miodrag Babić,
president of Hemofarm, Edin Arslanagić, director of Bosnalijek, Živko Mukaetov, director of Alkaloid, Vladimir Gravara,
director of Jugohemija Farmacija and Martin Schloh, partner A.T. Kearney.
Modern trends in pharmacy, standards in pharmaceutical production, innovations on the local level and in our
surroundings, guarantee of the quality of medicaments, phytopharmacy, medical products, OTC products, were the subject
of the third panel.
Having greeted the attendants, moderator Zlata Žuvela, director of the Pharmaceutical Chamber of Serbia presented the
panel members Ružica Nikolić, assistant to the minister in the Ministry of Health, Slavko Marković, the director of the
National Control Laboratory, Gordana Mihajlović, assistant to the director of the National Sector for Information, Nada
Kovačević, the dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy, Ana Korać – Trkulja, the marketing director at Roche and Pavle
Marjanović, the director of Sanofi – Aventis.
Estimating that the local pharmaceutical industry requires government support and adequate financial means so as to
succeed in bringing its production in accordance with the GMP standards by 2009, because after this deadline it will not
be possible sell any medicaments on the local market, unless they are produced in accordance with GMP, the minister of