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Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
The World Health Organization should buy low-cost diabetes treatments in bulk on behalf of the poorest countries to ensure they get the lowest price, the head of the world?s largest insulin maker said.
Most low- and middle-income countries pay too much for the medicines because they order relatively small amounts and few manufacturers bid for the tenders, Lars Rebien Soerensen, chief executive officer of Novo Nordisk A/S, said in an interview in London yesterday.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-...tes-drugs-in-bulk-for-poor-novo-ceo-says.html
Most low- and middle-income countries pay too much for the medicines because they order relatively small amounts and few manufacturers bid for the tenders, Lars Rebien Soerensen, chief executive officer of Novo Nordisk A/S, said in an interview in London yesterday.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-...tes-drugs-in-bulk-for-poor-novo-ceo-says.html