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KPL: Drug production must be exempt from power constraints

MedExpress Team

Medexpress

Published Nov. 22, 2024 10:02

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The country's drug manufacturers are calling for pharmaceutical manufacturers and distributors to be protected from restrictions on electricity consumption and supply. They stress that even a short-lived interruption of electricity supplies to pharmaceutical plants risks several days of production interruption and the need to dispose of entire batches of drugs and raw materials for their manufacture that have already been produced.

- Currently, neither pharmaceutical wholesalers nor drug manufacturers are covered by critical infrastructure. That is, when the power is cut, wholesalers do not work, manufacturers stop producing," warned Lukasz Pietrzak, Chief Pharmaceutical Inspector at the Innovators Forum in Warsaw.

According to the law, the Polish Power Grid (PSE), in the event of a shortage of power for electricity production, can limit the supply of electricity to the largest energy consumers, which means industrial plants first. The last time such power levels were announced was in August 2015.

Meanwhile, pharmaceutical production and distribution in Poland is highly dependent on energy supplies. Each plant has a vari...

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