Meanwhile, Thailand still relies on pharmaceutical drug imports with at least 65% of the total pharmaceutical market, worth up to 200 billion baht, being imported, and only 35% being produced in Thailand. Most of the locally produced drugs are ready-made drugs or drugs from downstream drug production. Otherwise, they are generic drugs, produced as copies of original drug formulas or prototype drugs from foreign countries whose patents have expired. Upstream drug production of newly discovered medicine and the production of intermediate drugs or the production of raw materials are still…
