Delivery bottlenecks for important medicines: “Situation very tense”. For 85 percent of the urgently needed medicines, the pharmaceutical trade can meet the statutory requirement of two weeks don't make sure.

The pharmaceutical industry accuses: ‘Politicians are just putting small plasters on the problems’ Pro Generika: There are too few manufacturers. There is only one large producer on the market for the breast cancer drug Tamoxifen. “The production of many pharmaceuticals is no longer profitable,” says Bork Bretthauer.