Interview with Vicki St Quintin, COO, PIASA. Pharmaceutical Industry Association…
South Africa has recently achieved the 1st Millennium Development Goal (MDG) – reducing the proportion of the population living on less than 1 USD a day by half – but…
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SAMED’s mission is to safeguard and promote the interests of our members, to encourage ethical principles and practices, promote innovation and better patient outcomes and ensure effective representation with all relevant authorities whether public or private.
Objectives of the association include:
Ensuring that all activities of the company shall have the best interests of its members as the primary objective, provided that such shall not unreasonably diminish from the needs and rights of patients;
Providing a forum for discussion on matters affecting the manufacturers and distributors of medical and surgical products in South Africa;
Promoting and encouraging among members ethical principles and practices, voluntarily agreed upon, and to this end, publish a Code of Business Practice which shall be binding on all members;
Communicate and represent, through an elected committee of members, the industry’s standpoint on relevant matters and offer advice or make recommendations when the need arises to any body or institution whose decisions and policies might affect the industry;
Co-operating with governments and regulatory authorities, whether national or international, as appropriate;
Working towards harmonization of standards and regulatory requirements within the area of medical devices manufacture and supply;
and Promoting a spirit of co-operation and shared responsibility among public and private health care professionals and providers, which shall include the State, as well as other relevant sectors, within the context of effective, efficient and transparent health care delivery.
South Africa has recently achieved the 1st Millennium Development Goal (MDG) – reducing the proportion of the population living on less than 1 USD a day by half – but…
Our international readers know about South Africa’s socio-economic relative achievements, considering the country joined the BRICS grouping last year and achieved the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) that same year.…
Mr Kahanovitz, Focus Reports came to South Africa in 2005 to produce a similar report on the South African pharmaceutical industry. Could you come back for us on the main…
The story of Novo Nordisk South Africa began in 1959 in Johannesburg. It was among the first affiliates outside of Denmark, with insulin and anti-infectives produced locally. To what extent…
You have worked at Roche for several years as Business unit Manager. Therefore you are familiar with the strategy of the company and the intricacies of the job. The new…
Having spent two months as the head of Novartis South Africa, what is your first assignment as General Manager, could you share with our readers what were the surprises for…
Mr. Miller, you have been Vice President and Managing Director of Mylan’s operations in South Africa since 2008. What mission were you assigned back then, and in those three years,…
South Africa carries one of the world’s most disproportionate disease burdens, the worst of so-called westernised diseases, such as cardiac disease, diabetes etc on the one hand and the developmental…
Ms Joubert, could you start by telling our readers over the 16 months of heading the operations here, what have been the most challenging situations as the General Manager of…
The line between research based pharmaceutical companies and generic companies is today less and less relevant, as we have seen in the past few years generic companies climb up the…
Mr. Godard, you previously worked in Europe for Baxter Edwards Life Sciences, what made you decide to move to South Africa in a smaller company? It is a purely romantic…
Your professional career went back and forth between creating your own business and running a smaller and very dynamic structure and managing over a thousand of employees for multinational organizations.…
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