“Egypt has 154 medicine factories, he explained. The business sector represents only four percent of the medicine market, while multinational companies represent the rest, even though they used to represent no more than 45 percent”
To be more specific, multinational pharmaceutical companies controlled half of the Egyptian market in 2012. Now they control 96%.
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