Cyprus is quickly working out of the antipsychotic drug Seroquel with the upper dosages particularly being briefly provide since early October, the Cyprus Information Company reported on Wednesday.
Seroquel is used to deal with sufferers with schizophrenia, bipolar or nervousness problems, despair or insomnia.Gesy has reached out to the buying and provide division of the well being ministry with the pressing request to handle the scarcity.
Gesy has requested greater than 38,000 capsules to make sure a inventory of the drug, however as 900 packets are consumed per 30 days, this might cowl the wants of sufferers for one and a half months.
CNA mentioned Seroquel imports had been initially anticipated to achieve the native market on January 31, however the date would in all probability not be met and it remained unclear when the drug would attain the island.
Gesy officer Ioanna Tantele confirmed the scarcity of Seroquel 150 mg and 300mg. She mentioned that the 150mg packages have already been briefly provide since mid-December 2024 and 300mg since early October.
Tantele additional identified that 50mg packages at present remained out there in the marketplace. This might cowl the necessity for not less than some sufferers.
She defined that authorities plan to request the supply of pharmaceutical generics with the ingredient quetiap as an alternative of the brand-name drug bought underneath the commerce identify Seroquel.
Medochemie, one of many greatest pharmaceutical corporations in Cyprus recognized for producing generics, will not be but producing a Seroquel generic, nevertheless, they instructed the Cyprus Mail that plans to take action throughout the subsequent 12 months are underway.
Pharmaceutical generics are medication with the identical active-ingredient components as brand-name drugs.Generic medication are cheaper, as as an alternative of doing testing and analysis themselves, they solely want to duplicate present merchandise. Apart from the distinction in pricing, they’re required to be the identical dosage, effectiveness, security and high quality as brand-name medication.
