Egypt plans to legalize the sale of medicine online

Egypt is trying to legalize the conditions of cloud captains by making emerging legislative amendments with the aim of organizing the sale of medicine via these digital platforms, amid expectations for the emerging sector to obtain about 5% of the total annual sales of drug market, according to 4 officials who spoke to ‘Al Sharq’. The Cloud Pharmacy is an integrated medicine service via an advanced electronic platform, which includes providing payments and delivery options. The sales of the pharmaceutical market “not -encompassing pharmacists in government hospitals” in the country are expected by 40% to 300 billion pounds at the end of 2025, according to what Ali Auf, head of the drug division of the Federation of Chamber of Commerce, previously. Total sales rose 67% in the first half to 150 billion pounds. Local companies currently produce about 93% of the country’s drug needs. Amendments to the pharmacy legislation The Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population aims to make amendments to the Pharmacy Act, which has been in effect since 1995, which would enroll the conditions of electronic pharmacies and the regulation of marketing, selling and promoting medical products and medicine via the Internet, according to the statements of the Spokier for the Ministry of Health and Population. In 2023 and early 2024, Egypt faced a serious deficit in many pharmaceutical items due to the foreign exchange crisis and import restrictions, and the failure of the prices of medicine to the required ratios, but the government announced last October the prices of a number of items that rose between 35 and 40%. The prices of some chronic illnesses in Egypt jumped by about 300% during the first half of 2025, after the package sometimes reached 100 thousand pounds, due to the scarcity of the offer of the limited distribution of a limited number of pharmacies without the other, which led to the creation of a black market in the local market, according to a number of officials. See also: Egyptian pharmaceutical businesses pump 4 billion pounds to add the Egyptian parliament this year. The amendments are considered in 2026. The Egyptian government has worked to provide the pharmaceutical businesses in the dollar to import raw materials during the past 12 months, as well as facilitating the manufacturing process for enterprises and to provide the necessary banking financing to support working capital, but the randomness of the drug distribution has prevented the supervisory efforts on the process of the process of the process of analyzing the process of analyzing the process of Supervisory efforts on the process of dissolution of the analysis of medicine are the head of the pharmaceutical department of the General Union of Rooms of Commerce Ali Aouf. AUF expects to launch most important pharmaceutical chains electronic drug trafficking applications and benefiting from the licensing of medicine applications, as well as licensing of private applications, which can contribute to this sector that acquires about 5% of the annual sales share of medicine. Also read: 100 companies demanding an increase in drug prices in Egypt at rates of up to 30% of various platforms for the sale of medicine without an official license. AUF told Al -Sharq that there is no official data for drug trafficking sales, as there is no official license by the Egyptian drug authority, explaining that all current applications work informally. There are many pharmaceutical platforms in the Egyptian market, including ‘medicine’, ‘smart medicine’, ‘healing’, ‘ain al -dawiyah’ and ‘media, but according to AUF they do not have approvals or licenses of the Egyptian drug authority. Mahmoud Abdel -Maqsoud, head of the Egyptian pharmacy division, has a claim of strict rules for making pharmaceutical platforms in Egypt, and is emphasized in statements to all -sharq, the need to place strict control on the spread of medicine by electronic platforms, and only the lives of patients. Abdel -Maqsoud is of the opinion that the current electronic applications in the Egyptian market are a door of decayed and unknown drug trafficking, which appeals to strict controls when legalizing their conditions. The judicial authorities in Egypt have issued several previous decisions to close electronic applications for the circulation and sale of medicine, including the application of ‘your health’ in 2021. The crisis of the lack of basic medicine in the country has ended according to government statements, but the crisis continues in a number of chronic illnesses. Despite the availability of local alternatives, patients complain that the effectiveness of some does not compare their original peer, which results in some relying on their therapeutic needs from abroad, in light of the continued high prices and the scarcity of distribution in Egypt.