The Deputy Minister of Health Dr Gwen Ramokgopa will tonight (Wednesday 26 March 2014) attend a meeting with healthcare companies at Aspen Pharmacare in Woodmead.
The purpose of the meeting will be to:
1. Build and enhance relationship between healthcare companies at a senior level and Government.
2. To listen to specific issues of concern thathealthcare companies wish to raise and see how these are best addressed.
3. To create a climate and environment where further companies would consider joining the Public Health Enhancement Fund, specifically in an area that would address the strengthening of medicine regulation and regulatory science in our country.
The meeting will be attended by CEOs and senior representatives from the following companies:
Ascendis, Roche, BMS, Litha, Eli Lilly, GSK Consumer, Novo-Nordisk, Abbott, Boehringer Ingelheim, Astra Zenecca, Mediscor, Sandoz, Hetero, Imperial Healthcare, Norgine, Aspen, Dischem, and Clicks.
Date: 26 March 2014
Venue: Aspen Pharmacare, Healthcare Park,Woodlands Drive, Woodmead (Johannesburg).
Time: 18h00 to 21h00
Journalist are invited for one-on-one interviews and/ pre/ post meeting interviews.
Enquiries:
Khutso Silas Rabothata
Communication and Media Manager
Tel: 012 395 8481/ 8091/ 8093
Fax: 086 536 7045
Cell: 082 487 1828/ 072 992 7171
E-mail: RabotS@health.gov.za
