New Sovaldi batch to arrive in Egypt in March 2015

CAIRO: Egypt will get another group of the hepatitis C treatment medicine Sovaldi from the U.S. Gilead Sciences Company in March 2015, Dr. Gamal Esmat, an individual from Egypt's Viral Hepatitis C Committee, told The Cairo Post Friday.

The bunch will be like a prior group of 225,000 containers as of late got at a decreased cost.

A week back, a site was propelled to permit hepatitis C patients to enlist to get the treatment. A huge number of registrants between ages 18-70 have enlisted for pre-treatment examination.

Egypt has the most elevated rate of hepatitis C contamination on the planet as per the United Nations Population Fund, as per which 14.7 percent of the populace between ages 15-49 have tried positive for the infection.

Esmat said that as per the choice rules accessible on the site, patients with "more earnest cases" and liver fibrosis will be dealt with first with Sovaldi amid the following six months.

"The rules will be changed at regular intervals, in the midst of the ascent of new hepatitis C medications over the world, which will empower more patients to be dealt with later on," included Esmat.

Beginning from March 2015, more patients will have the capacity to get the cure, as different medicines will be bland, he said.

He included that the Ministry of Health is arranging this year to treat 150,000 patients with the medication, and in the coming years "the arrangement will be to cure from 250,000 to 300,000 patients every year."

Esmat likewise said Minister of Health Adel el-Adawy is attempting to make the medication's cost at drug stores closer to its cost at government therapeutic centers, which is 2,000 EGP ($307) per pack.

"There are various Egyptian privately owned businesses why should looking for assembling Sovaldi and are arranging the value," he included.