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Chapter 10: Details of Economic Planning
10.6. Special Structure and Details of the pharmaceutical plans
Although drugs are included in the broad definition of food, due to their specific uses, they are not included in the broader local consumption plans and are produced and distributed based on the separate pharmaceutical plans. Because drugs often have universal global demand, pharmaceutical plans start from the World Commonwealth plan.
A distinction is made between basic drugs for which there is universal demand, specialty drugs for a small number of patients with intractable diseases, and endemic drugs for endemic diseases specific to specific regions.
Basic and specialty drugs are manufactured by the World Pharmaceutical Organization under the World Commonwealth under the World Commonwealth Plan and supplied equitably throughout the world, provided that their efficacy and safety are confirmed by the World Commonwealth Drug Regulatory Agency.
On the other hand, endemic drugs, based on the supply plan of the Grand-Zone where they are in demand (e.g., the Pan-African-South Atlantic Zone), are listed in the World Commonwealth plan and manufactured and supplied.
Furthermore, whenever an epidemic such as a pandemic or endemic occurs, vaccines for infectious diseases are manufactured and supplied in accordance with the World Commonwealth's emergency vaccine plan appropriate to the type of epidemic.
In contrast to drugs certified by the World commonwealth, drugs independently certified by the drug regulatory bodies of each Zone are manufactured and supplied by the pharmaceutical industry organization of each Zone in accordance with that Zone's pharmaceutical plan.
To that extent, the pharmaceutical plan is divided into the World Commonwealth plan and the Zonal plans. However, there is always the possibility that the efficacy and safety of a drug manufactured and supplied under a Zonal plan will also be certified by the World Commonwealth and that it will be newly listed as an item on the World Commonwealth Pharmaceutical plan. *Conversely, there may be cases where the efficacy and safety of a drug manufactured and supplied under a Zonal plan is denied or banned by the World Commonwealth, or, although rare, there may be cases where the efficacy and safety of a drug manufactured and supplied under the World Commonwealth plan is denied or banned in a specific Zone.
This Zonal pharmaceutical plan does not cover all drugs, but is limited to drugs prescribed by doctors, and even within that, it is particularly narrowed to core drugs (equivalent to the basic drugs in the above category). The remaining drugs will be freely produced and supplied by pharmaceutical companies based on official approval review.
👉The papers published on this blog are meant to expand upon my On Communism.
