First table of pharmaceuticals, today at the Ministry of Development, to take stock of the state of health of the industry. Declining investments, redundancy of personnel (estimated at 10 thousand units), revision of the handbook and funds for research, are the hot topics on which confederates and companies will discuss. According to Farmindustria, there was a 10% decline in the use of the brand-name drugs in August.
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PHARMACEUTICALS, 10 THOUSAND AT RISK (M. Meneghello) 
Pharmaceuticals, Ulgiati: "Table with Flounder, first important step"
“The table on pharmaceuticals with Minister Passera is the first to be held with such a large and diversified audience of subjects. This is an important signal, because we cannot continue to overlook a 'silent' crisis which does not often end up in the spotlight, but whose numbers speak for themselves: we are talking about the loss of 10,000 jobs in the last 5 years”.
Thus the national secretary of Ugl Chimici, Luigi Ulgiati, at the end of the first meeting at the MSE of the industrial policy table on the pharmaceutical sector, which was attended by representatives of the entire supply chain and four ministries. In addition to the Minister of Economic Development, Corrado Passera, the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Economic Development, Claudio De Vincenti, who coordinated the works, the Undersecretary of Economy and Finance, Gianfranco Polillo, as well as executives of the Ministry of Economics, Health and University and Research.
“It is positive that the representatives of the executive – explains Ulgiati – have accepted the solicitations coming from many quarters, and from different stakeholders, receiving an exhaustive picture of the critical issues. It was decided to schedule other plenary meetings, and also to convene specific tables to explore the various problems of the sector".
"During the discussions we had with previous governments - continues the trade unionist - we have repeatedly called for an assumption of responsibility to avert the loss of a fundamental asset of our industry, which has been suffering for too long, and to limit the related effects on levels employment. Unfortunately
