# Union GIWUSA demands the immediate nationalisation of the pharmaceutical Industry. Last week, Pharmaceuticals Made in South Africa alleged the Health Department’s focus on price was squeezing local drug manufacturers out of crucial medicine tenders, triggering the loss of two-thousand-500 jobs in the past 18 months. GIWUSA’s president, Mametlwe Sebei, says government must take direct ownership and control of manufacturing facilities to ensure production is driven by social needs and not private profit:
GIWUSA demands the immediate nationalisation of the pharmaceutical industry [SOUND]
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