The country spent $2.1
billion on imported drugs last year.
Vietnam’s pharmaceuticalmanufacturers met
less than half the nation's demand for drugs last year, experts said at a
seminar on Monday.
From 2010 to 2015, local
pharmaceutical firms saw annual growth rates of 17-20 percent, according to Le
Van Truyen, former deputy health minister.
Truyen called Vietnam the largest pharmaceutical growth market in
the region with a value that's expected to hit $7.2 million in 2020
-- up 71 percent from 2015.
“Vietnam is considered to be emerging within the pharmaceutical
world,” Truyen said, adding that the recent expansion of social
insurance boosted demand for free drugs.
Domestically-manufactured medicines only met 45 percent of
demand last year, causing frequent supply shortages at local hospitals.
Data from Vietnam’s General Statistics Office revealed that the
country spent $2.1 billion importing meds from external sources in 2015
compared to a mere $1.1 million in 2009.
“This is an impetus for
international pharmaceutical corporations to purchase shares or transfer
technology to Vietnamese companies,” Truyen said.
In June, Japanese drug
manufacturer Taisho Group paid around VND2.2 trillion ($98 million)
for a 24.4 per cent stake in Vietnam’s leading drug maker Hau Giang
Pharmaceutical Joint Stock Company.
Global healthcare
company Abbott announced in September that it acquired Vietnam's third-largest
publicly traded drugmaker, Glomed, but didn’t disclose the details of the deal.
Dang Tran Hai Dang of
Vietinbank Securities said that Vietnam's publicly-traded pharma firms saw good
growth, both in terms of revenue and profit, during the first nine months of
2016.
Pharmaceutical stocks
have caught the interest of investors, though most of the listed firms have run
out of room for foreign ownership, said Dang.
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