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November 21st, 2007 at 3:11 am
PRESS STATEMENT
Office of Senator Mar Roxas
Manila, Philippines
November 5, 2007
SENATE PASSES QUALITY AFFORDABLE MEDICINES BILL ON 3RD RDG
The Senate has passed Senate Bill No. 1658, the Quality Affordable
Medicines Act of 2007, on final reading, as Congress resumed session
after a month-long break.
“I commend my colleagues in the Senate for acting immediately to pass
the Quality Affordable Medicines bill on third and final reading. Now
we await the House of Representatives to pass their version, so we can
immediately convene a bicameral conference committee hearing,” Roxas,
primary author of SB 1658, said.
“The good thing is that we now have time on our side. This should not,
however, be an excuse to sit on the bill. The more time the House and
Senate have to discuss and reconcile the versions of the bill, the
more responsive the bill could be for our countrymen’s health needs,”
Roxas added.
SB 1658 was passed last October 2, and enjoys the support of the
Departments of Health and Trade, groups such as the World Health
Organization, Oxfam and Ayos na Gamot sa Abot Kayang Presyo (AGAP),
and members of the academe such as Felipe Medalla and Rene Azurin,
both of the University of the Philippines.
The bill will ease patent laws and bring in more affordable medicines
abroad, helping spur competition to bring down prices. For instance,
he noted how a common maintenance drug for diabetes, Daonil, costs
P9.86 locally for a 5-mg tablet, which is taken twice a day. The same
tablet however could be bought from India for less than one peso at
roughly P.80.
Another diabetes treatment drug, Diamicron, costs P11 locally for a
30-mg tablet, taken twice a day. The same tablet can be bought for P5
from Pakistan and P7.57 from India, up to P12 savings in a day.
First among SB 1658’s provisions are the proposed amendments to the
Intellectual Property Code which seek to allow the parallel
importation of more affordable medicines from abroad; support the
generics industry by adopting the “early working” principle and to
disallow the grant of new patents on grounds of “new use;” and give
ample muscle to the government through a framework for government use
and compulsory licensing.
The bill also recommends strengthening the Bureau of Food and Drugs to
serve as a counterfoil to attempts to bring in fake or substandard
medicines by allowing BFAD to retain its operating income from fees
and other charges so it could upgrade its facilities and beef up its
human resources.
The bill also contains provisions allowing the President to impose
drug price ceilings in times of calamity, public health emergencies,
events that cause artificial and unreasonable price hikes, the
prevalence of illegal price manipulation and whenever prevailing
prices have risen to unreasonable levels. Roxas said that this
mechanism is patterned after the provisions of the Price Act.
August 23rd, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Ferdz,
Please amend your info to state that Mabuhay news is a weekly paper which comes out every Friday.
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AAM
October 6th, 2008 at 6:06 am
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December 2nd, 2008 at 8:18 am
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