Egypt’s small pharma factories could face shutdown after 4x registration fee hike

A fourfold increase in medical registration fees is putting 154 small-scale pharma manufacturers at risk of shutting down, Medical Union Pharma board member Osama Rostom said, according to Al Shorouk. The Health Ministry recently hiked the one-off registration fee for pharma products to EGP 1 mn from EGP 250k.