State manufacturing of medicinal substances in Argentina as a State policy

Abstract

This article makes a survey of the state production of pharmaceuticals and analyzes the possibility of supplying the public Health system of the nation and provinces with drugs used in this COVID-19 pandemic and for the basic pathologies of the population. There are currently 39 state laboratories with installed capacity and trained human resources. This research
analyzes the possibility of coordinating the production of drugs and vaccines through the work of these establishments. The objective is to provide information on state health establishments and the set of medicines that they can offer in a combined and coordinated way to the health system as a whole to face the current COVID-19 pandemic, based on the premise that argentina has the appropriate legislation to implement this type of public policy.