Local Manufacturers & Competitors

(Source: Egypt Pharmaceutical Country Profile, Ministry of Health Egypt & WHO, July 2011, p.13.)

Currently there are no production facilities operated by international medical device manufacturers in Egypt. Local production is negligible with just one Egyptian company producing a limited range of ultrasound scanners. Specialized medical equipment such as radiography and ultrasound apparatus, vital statistics monitors, and dialysis machines are imported and distributed by a handful of companies that benefit from low import tariffs, the biggest of which, El Gomhoureya, is wholly owned by the government.

Private healthcare providers are thus limited in choice and price and often choose to personally import the equipment they need, which must be brand new and unused according to customs laws to be brought into the country. This can be a slow and complicated process, yet it is pursued anyway as it is popular amongst Egyptian physicians to travel abroad for medical seminars and conferences where they are kept abreast of the latest technologies and can acquire devices not offered by El Gomhoureya.

                      Market Share of Pharmaceutical Companies in Egypt in the year or 2012

(Source: MSD Egypt Country Brief, 2012, http://www.msd-egypt.com/assets/pdf/EGYPT%20COUNTRY%20BRIEF.pdf)