New drugs coming to Hungary later, if at all, says pharma lobbyist

25 March 2019

Péter Holchacker, director of Hungary’s Association of Innovative Pharmaceutical Manufacturers (AIPM), has said that the country’s medicines budget is 20 billion Hungarian forint ($71 million) behind what it was a decade ago.

Dr Holchacker said that this amount is needed to take Hungary to the average level of the Visegrád countries, which also include the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland.

In an interview with news website Portfolio, Dr Holchacker said that the tax situation faced by pharma in Hungary was not helpful.

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