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Egypt\u2019s new healthcare law should include provisions that guarantee access to medication, <\/strong>Alaa Ghanam writes in a column for Al Shorouk<\/a>. He argues that one way to do that is to pass policies that would boost the local pharma industry\u2019s performance, by setting quality standards for the industry, promoting scientific research, and setting a clear strategy for imports and exports of meds. Because pharmacare? That ain\u2019t gonna work, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Egypt\u2019s new healthcare law should include provisions that guarantee access to medication, Alaa Ghanam writes in a column for Al Shorouk. He argues that one way to do that is to pass policies that would boost the local pharma industry\u2019s performance, by setting quality standards for the industry, promoting scientific research, and setting a clear […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9411],"tags":[72,9410],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-623137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-deadline","tag-enterpriseam","tag-on-deadline","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"3d09a4b5-7ac1-41dd-9b08-83e483578740","order":"0","is_powered_by":true,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[623114],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nHealthcare laws should guarantee access to meds - EnterpriseAM Egypt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2018\/10\/22\/healthcare-laws-should-guarantee-access-to-meds\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Healthcare laws should guarantee access to meds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Egypt\u2019s new healthcare law should include provisions that guarantee access to medication, Alaa Ghanam writes in a column for Al Shorouk. 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