Uganda: Foreign Drugs Hurting Local Medicine Firms

THE importation of drugs is posing a threat to local pharmaceutical industries, the head of the Luzira-based Quality Chemicals Industries has said.

Emmanuel Katongole said imported medicines, particularly from China, were destroying incentives for local pharmaceutical companies.

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