21 Mar 2021

The Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) stated in its most recent report that Egypt’s imports of medicines and pharmaceutical preparations increased by 10.5% during 2020 to reach USD2.8bn. In December 2020, the increase was 13.7% compared with the same month of the year before.

Notable in the report was that Egypt’s imports of pharmaceutical products from Saudi Arabia increased by 379% to reach USD48mn.  (Source: Souq al-Dawaa Website, Amwal al-Ghad Newspaper)