The Chamber of Deputies of the province of Buenos Aires approved and sent to the Senate the bill that creates a public drug laboratory that promotes the Governor Axel Kicillof during an extraordinary session that took place this afternoon.
The initiative seeks to create the Buenos Aires Pharmaceutical Industry Centera public limited company with majority state participation, which has the objective of guaranteeing equitable access to medicines for the population.
The proposal had the support of the ruling party, the Union, Renewal and Faith blocks, and Civic Agreement-UCR-GEN. The blocks of the UCR-Federal Change, La Libertad Avanza and the PROwhile the two uniblocs of Trotskyism abstained.
The project establishes that the Center, which will depend on the Ministry of Healthwill have the purpose of “carrying out research, development, production, fashioning, fractioning, transformation, completion, import and/or export, purchase, sale and wholesale and/or retail distribution as well as such as quality control of all types of medicines, vaccines, supplies, medical products, equipment, active pharmaceutical ingredients, primary and secondary standards for production quality control, medical dental supplies, health products and any other supplies necessary for the health”.
In addition, it must be in charge of “physicochemical and microbiological quality control of food and water, the exploitation of invention patents, licenses, formulas and national or foreign brands, representation, mandate, commission and consignment activities, import and export, as well as any other activity aimed at strengthening the technological, scientific, productive, and innovation development of society itself, as well as the public and private sector of the province of Buenos Aires.”
In the foundations of PE 1/24-25 it stands out: “Produce medicines and medical products from a Public Limited Company with Majority State Participationshould help avoid the surcharges applied by private laboratories when they have a production monopoly or a distinctive brand, which in turn translates into lower prices for end users throughout the market” and it is added that “The public production of medicines becomes an effective tool to guarantee the right to health and guarantee that no citizen is deprived of treatments for economic reasons.”
During the debate, the peronist deputy Gustavo Pulti He said that the laboratory aims to “alleviate the serious health situation” that society is experiencing as a result of national policies. “Medicines are managed by monopolies and oligopolies. There is a 26% drop in the purchase of medicines, because there are no countries in the world with such expensive medicines. In addition, there are coverage cuts in the PAMI,” said the ruling party legislator. “France, Germany or the United Kingdom have drug production laboratories. Kicillof wants to equip himself with this tool in a context of falling employment, industry, informality, with the destruction of sources of work and where medicines are very expensive,” Pulti added.
Where there is a need, there is a right And where there is no market, there are Rights. Medicine is a social good, public health is a universal human right and the governor makes decisions in a context of impoverishment and cruelty to medicine retirees.
Meanwhile, Gustavo Cuervo, the president of the Unión Renovación y Fe bloc, explained that from that bench they support the initiative “because there is a need to provide a solution to this serious problem” of remedies.
The word of the opposition
In that context, Guillermo Castello, from the official La Libertad Avanza blocquestioned “the elephantine state of populism” and said that “the miserable situation of the country responds to it.”
“The governor likes to play the businessman with other people’s money,” he evaluated and criticized that “in a caste agreement, a five-member board of directors, five paid bureaucrats, has been created.” “These companies are of no use to people, they provide terrible services and are places where family members and gnocchi are put up,” he continued and predicted that the company “will end up bankrupt.”
Later, from PROJulieta Quintero, stated: “The bureaucratic structure of the province should not be enlarged” and analyzed that the state companies are “inefficient and deficient” and her peer on the bench, Fernando Rovello, added: “Always against these nonsense of Kicillof “I’m tired of the fact that all he wants is to be President and all he makes are populist decisions that create more public positions for militants.”
In turn, Laura Cano, from the PTScalled for “strengthening the Tomas Perón Institute and the public production of medicines, science and technology, instead of creating a public limited company”, and was against private participation “because he considered that this is more of a market, and not more of a State.” “.
In the same vein, the radical María Alejandra Lorden He asked that instead of creating this company, “Kicillof better take care of the health system” and Romina Braga, from the Civic Coalition, said she understood “that medicines increased by 40 percent as a result of the liberalization of prices,” but criticized that the proposal “it is debated in a hurry.”
Source: Ambito
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