Santé : pourquoi ce médicament contre le cancer du sang n’est pas disponible dans les pharmacies au Sénégal
Lenalidomide is expensive. A 10 mg box of this blood cancer medication costs 61,000 CFA francs, and can sometimes reach 100,000. This high price is due to the product's scarcity on the market. "We don't even have it in our databases," confessed a pharmacist interviewed by Walfadjri, which covered the topic in its Thursday edition.
A pharmacy manager in Dakar-Plateau agrees: "Few pharmacists sell it. [...] It's a medication that is often specially ordered from abroad. Sometimes, doctors bring it back from their trips and even resell it to their patients."
The main problem is that Lenalidomide "is part of this class of drugs which are not licensed in Senegal," says Dr. Mamadou Sow, head of the department in charge of licensing drugs, vaccines and other health products at the Pharmaceutical Regulatory Agency (ARP), contacted by Wal fadjri.
This cancer drug therefore lacks a Marketing Authorization (MA), a prerequisite for its sale in Senegal. Despite this, doctors continue to prescribe it. "This creates difficulties in some pharmacies," laments Dr. Sow. "We have a database and also a list of essential medicines. It is up to prescribers to make the effort to consult the approved products before prescribing them."
Walfadjri's source insists: "Often at forums or congresses abroad, innovations are presented on products, and some prescribers, upon returning home, try to offer these products to their patients, knowing full well that they are not approved in their country. This does not benefit patients."
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L’heure est au progrès, tous les médicaments susceptibles de soigner le cancer doivent être disponibles au Senegal, les malades n’ont pas à voyager pour se soigner, les médecins n’ont pas non plus à prescrire des médicaments bad game à leurs patients juste parce que ceux qui doivent faire en sorte que les meilleurs médicaments soient disponibles ne font pas leur travail.
Réfléchissez plutôt à comment faire pour que la Lenalidomide (qui fait des miracles dans le myelome multiple) puisse être disponible au Senegal mo geune.
C'est vraiment désolant.
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