Pharmaceutical Wholesalers Bemoan Power Cuts and Fuel Price Increases
INCESSANT dreary power cuts coupled with ever rising fuel prices have adversely affected the pharmaceutical wholesale industry’s operations in the last three months. By Kudakwashe Pembere Zimbabwe has had to endure 18 hour long power cuts, thus affecting productivity. In an interview, Pharmaceutical and Chemical Distributors director Prashant Shah said they wrote to Zesa informing
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EXCLUSIVE: Pharmaceutical Wholesalers Speak On ‘Cartel’ Claims
INDIAN Pharmaceutical companies operating in Zimbabwe have refuted claims that there are running a ‘medicine wholesale cartel’ in Zimbabwe colluding in the pricing madness of medicines to quash competition. By Kudakwashe Pembere The response comes hot on the heels of reports that there is a cartel of pharmaceutical wholesalers in Zimbabwe monopolising drugs. Investigations done by
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RBZ Mum On Pharmaceutical Industry Forex Allocation
THE Central Bank is not forthcoming in addressing complaints raised by pharmaceutical wholesalers where local banks have been refusing to allocate them foreign currency, HealthTimes has learnt. By Kudakwashe Pembere Since the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe’s directive putting pharmaceutical companies on high priority allowing them to get foreign currency without hassles at banks, they have
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