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Pfizer Hopes Russia Considers Drug Import Substitution Plan Carefully

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One of the global pharmaceutical giants, US pharmaceutical corporation Pfizer hopes that Russia continues its dialogue with foreign drug producers and finds a solution ensuring the Russian public's access to high-quality medicines while it implements its drug import substitution program, Pfizer's director general in Russia Danil Blinov told RIA Novosti on Wednesday.

TOMSK, September 24 (RIA Novosti) – One of the global pharmaceutical giants, US pharmaceutical corporation Pfizer hopes that Russia continues its dialogue with foreign drug producers and finds a solution ensuring the Russian public's access to high-quality medicines while it implements its drug import substitution program, Pfizer's director general in Russia Danil Blinov told RIA Novosti on Wednesday.

"We hope that the state will continue its dialogue with pharmaceutical industry, and that we will be able to find the best solution. And what is the most important – the patients will be sufficiently ensured with the high-quality, modern and affordable medicines," Blinov said on the sidelines of an international pharmaceutical forum in Tomsk.

According to Blinov, it is important that the Russian market corresponds with the principles that have existed on Western markets for a long time, under which "the competition between drugs is in accordance with the international standards of quality, effectiveness and safety."

Blinov also noted that some foreign companies act as Russia's strategic partners in the development of the Russian pharmaceutical industry, investing in the localization of drug production and in training specialists. Many of them produce locally in Russia, build plants, buy existing enterprises and transfer technologies here.

"In particular, Pfizer has implemented a project of transferring the technology of the full-cycle production of an innovative vaccine against pneumococcal infection to its local partner, NPO Petrovax Pharm," Blinov said, adding that Russia has received a high-quality vaccine to be produced locally.

Earlier, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that the country will not ban the import of medicines but will work on ensuring a certain level of independence in this area.

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