East China’s Jiangsu province has gone all out to strengthen epidemic prevention and control by implementing various optimization measures to effectively meet the medical and living needs of the people through more detailed, practical, and warm measures.
Yangzhou Third Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. is stepping up the production of ibuprofen suspension for children.
The provincial and municipal authorities have been tasked to provide raw materials and logistics transportation coordination services. The enterprise has also scientifically allocated human resources and worked overtime to turn out as many drugs as possible.
Tang Shiqing, Deputy General Manager of Yangzhou Sanyao Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd, said that they produce 40000 boxes of ibuprofen and about 20000 boxes of ambroxol hydrochloride every day. The first batch produced Tuesday has been sent to Yangzhou and Nanjing. They have the responsibility and obligation to ensure market supply and promise not to raise prices.
In order to meet the market demand for COVID-19 antigen detection reagent, the provincial Food and Drug Administration is accelerating the expansion of production and capacity for 12 COVID-19 antigen detection reagent enterprises.
Jiangsu has also made every effort to solve the "difficulty in purchasing drugs". Since December 19, 153 pharmacies in Nanjing have put 2 million tablets of antipyretic drugs on the market every day, and each customer can buy up to 6 tablets by showing his or her ID card and medical insurance card.
Some pharmacies in Wuxi have also begun to retail drugs that have fallen short of supply, including ibuprofen, to improve the coverage and accessibility of key drugs.
Suqian City has set up the first convenient fever clinic in the Sports and Sports Center of Sucheng District to provide symptomatic drug prescribing services for people aged 16 to 65 who have no basic diseases, non-emergency and non-invasive treatment of common upper respiratory tract infection and fever.
Jiangyan District of Taizhou has set up a "convenient clinic" for COVID-19 infection in village level medical institutions, and provided on-site drug delivery services for residents with infection symptoms.
Xinjian Village, Shaxi Town, Taicang City launched the service of "online registration and offline drug delivery" to meet the needs of residents for antigen detection and prescription.
Sun Xingyu, staff of Xinjian Village, Shaxi Town, Taicang City, said that in this special period, they have tried our best to reduce the risk of cross infection when people go out to see doctors and buy drugs. On the other hand, they have greatly alleviated the pressure on fever clinics.
