Industry Lodges Legal Challenge To Turkey’s Local Drug Production Policy
Executive Summary
Turkish drug industry association AIFD is demanding that the court cancels a government policy under which multinational companies are facing the threat of having their medicines removed from the reimbursement list unless they produce them locally.
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