Work at full steam to boost medicine supply for epidemic control - Xinhua

Staff members battalion medicines astatine a pharmaceutical institution successful cardinal China's Hunan Province, Dec. 19, 2022. (Xinhua/Chen Sihan)

BEIJING, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) -- To guarantee ample proviso of anti-epidemic medicine, all-out measures are present successful spot to ramp up medicine accumulation and facilitate distribution.

At Hebei Dongfeng Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., accumulation lines are moving astatine afloat capableness to nutrient analgesics, antipyretics, and different over-the-counter medicine treating COVID-19 symptoms. Among them, the regular accumulation capableness of ibuprofen stands astatine 1.5 cardinal tablets, which tin conscionable the regular depletion of 300,000 people.

In Shenyang, the superior of northeastern Liaoning Province, Northeast Pharm is moving astir the timepiece to churn retired paracetamol tablets.

The products merchantability for 0.1 yuan (1.4 U.S. cents) per tablet. The amazingly debased terms of this medicine has made the institution spell viral online.

"It is the enterprises of large societal work that person made medicines accessible and affordable to radical successful hopeless need. We each beryllium them galore thanks," Sina Weibo idiosyncratic "Xuanhuai" wrote successful a comment.

There are 12 cause manufacturers successful Shenyang, making 40 kinds of antiviral, antibiotic, fever-reducing, and cough-relieving medicines, said Liu Yaoguo, an authoritative with Shenyang Municipal Development and Reform Commission. "All of them person been operating astatine afloat steam."

In the meantime, assorted measures person been taken to velocity up the travel of aesculapian products, ensuring they tin smoothly participate the marketplace and scope the people.

At the China Resources Pharmaceutical Commercial Group Co., Ltd. successful the Xicheng District of Beijing, logistic organisation trucks of each sizes are mobilized to velocity up transportation.

Ma Chunlin, 1 of the drivers, packed implicit 700 boxes into the motortruck earlier heading for a warehouse successful Beijing's Shunyi District.

With the assistance of the Beijing Municipal Medical Products Administration, a "green channel" for medicine organisation was acceptable up, providing convenience to logistic organisation trucks similar Ma's transporting cause deliveries.

According to institution data, it has supplied much than 3 cardinal items of anti-epidemic drugs, including fever reducers, to implicit 4,000 clients crossed Beijing successful the past week. Among them were 300 hospitals, much than 2,200 assemblage wellness centers, and implicit 1,500 retail pharmacies.

From the opening of December, Sinopharm Logistics's No. 2 warehouse successful Shanghai has managed to present implicit 3 cardinal items of medicines successful precocious request to aesculapian institutions crossed the city.

"Our unit is moving 12 to 17 hours a time to marque that happen," said Chen Junfeng, manager of the No. 2 warehouse. He added that astatine slightest 4 trucks are lasting by for exigency orders.

At a property league held earlier this month, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said that the proviso of medicines for cardinal locations, including aesculapian institutions and nursing homes for the elderly, volition beryllium prioritized. Large pharmacies volition beryllium mobilized to make online platforms to facilitate the transportation of medicines to patients successful need.

JD Health International Inc., the healthcare subdivision of the e-commerce elephantine JD.com, has been moving with explicit transportation companies to assistance much than 1,400 offline pharmacies successful Beijing supply location transportation services.  ■