Katrina: de farmaceutische bedrijven staan klaar
Al in de eerste uren na de doortocht van de orkaan Katrina in de
Verenigde Staten hebben de farmaceutische ondernemingen alles in het
werk gesteld, om de getroffen bevolking te hulp te komen met
specifieke aandacht voor de toegang tot de gezondheidzorg.
De farmaceutische ondernemingen werken ter plekke nauw samen met de
humanitaire hulporganisaties om op optimale wijze het nodige
personeel, financiële hulp en geneesmiddelen klaar te hebben om de
slachtoffers van de orkaan op een concrete en doeltreffende manier
bij te staan. Tot op vandaag werd door de farmaceutische sector al
voor meer dan 42 miljoen dollar, eveneens in de vorm van
geneesmiddelen, geschonken aan de ontredderde bevolking.
Veel patiënten in de getroffen gebieden hebben sinds deze catastrofe
geen toegang tot hun medicatie. Teneinde de slachtoffers bij te staan
doen de farmaceutische laboratoria het nodige opdat zij hun
geneesmiddelen op voorschrift kunnen verkrijgen. De ondernemingen
werken samen met leveranciers, artsen en patiënten om de
ononderbroken distributie van geneesmiddelen te verzekeren.
Als bijlage vindt u een overzicht van de giften en initiatieven van
de farmaceutische laboratoria.
Contactpersonen:
-Leo Neels, Algemeen directeur, ln@pharma.be, 02 238 99 62
-Caroline Trouet, Adjunct algemeen directeur, ct@pharma.be, 02 238 99
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BIJLAGE
ABBOTT
-Pledged $2 million in cash donations.
-Working with relief agencies to provide at least $3.5 million in
nutritional and medical product donations.
AMGEN
- Initial cash donation of $2.5 million and establishing a
company-wide Hurricane Katrina Relief Program in support of
humanitarian aid, with a special focus on access to health care.
- The Amgen Foundation will match all staff contributions via their
relief site.
- Working to ensure uninterrupted distribution of products to
suppliers, physicians and most importantly, patients in the impacted
areas.
AMYLIN
- Donated $100,000 to the American Red Cross and will match all
employee contributions up to an additional $100,000.
- Also donating $50,000 to the Pennington Medical Center at the
Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge for the establishment of an
emergency diabetes clinic to serve individuals who are now homeless
or unable to access proper care and medications.
ASTELLAS
- Donating $250,000 to the American Red Cross for relief efforts.
- Additionally, Astellas will match employee contributions up to
$50,000 to the American Red Cross.
- Evaluating what antibiotics should be delivered to relief areas.
ASTRAZENECA
- Initial cash donation of $1 million to the American Red Cross.
- Will match company employee donations to the American Red Cross
dollar-for-dollar.
- Will make product donations to national and local disaster relief
organizations providing aid to hurricane affected areas along with
free medicines to patients and clinics through the company's Patient
Assistance Programs.
BAYER
- Donations have doubled since their initial pledge and are now close
to $4 million in cash and goods.
- Ready to ship more than 45,000 blood glucose monitors and test
strips to help hurricane victims with diabetes.
- Will match Bayer employee donations dollar-for-dollar, which will
then be donated to the American Red Cross.
BMS
- Donated $1.1 million in cash to the American Red Cross.
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation has had over 1,000 U.S. employees
donate to the American Red Cross through participation in their
matching gift program.
- Mead Johnson Nutritionals has provided more than 2 million bottles
or cans of infant formula and other nutritional products valued at
over $3.5 million.
- Will donate ostomy, wound care and skin care products worth
approximately $200,000 for hurricane victims.
- Working with company's relief agency partners to arrange the
donation and distribution of Bristol-Myers Squibb medicines.
BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM
- Donating up to $600,000 in cash and additional product donations as
needed.
CEPHALON
- Matching employee donations to hurricane relief organizations.
DAIICHI
- Donating $10,000 to the American Red Cross.
- Matching employee donations to the American Red Cross.
EISAI
- Donating a total of $1.25 million in cash -- $1 million from parent
company Eisai Co., Ltd., headquartered in Tokyo, and $250,000 from
Eisai U.S.
- Will also match employee donations.
ELI LILLY
- Donating $1 million to the American Red Cross.
- Donating $1 million in insulin products and an additional $1
million for other products.
- Plans to send 40,000 vials of refrigerated insulin.
- Will match dollar-for-dollar employee contributions to the American
Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund.
GENZYME
- Will make product donations.
- Matching employee contribution program.
GLAXOSMITHKLINE
- Donated one million dollars to relief funds -- $500,000 to the
American Red Cross, $250,000 to the Mississippi Hurricane Fund and
$250,000 to the Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation.
- Donated approximately 3 million dollars in prescription drug
products (based on wholesale acquisition cost).
- Donated products include antibiotics and medicines for diabetes,
respiratory conditions, cardiovascular disease, and epilepsy.
- Matching employee contributions.
JOHNSON & JOHNSON
- Donating an initial $5 million in cash to various relief and
charitable organizations.
- In addition, donated in excess of $1 million worth of essential
disaster relief products including 5,000 personal care kits and two
Disaster Relief Modules to MAP International.
- Donations have included non-prescription pain relievers, wound care
products, prescription medicines and surgical products.
- Working closely with disaster relief organizations to meet the
immediate needs for personal care and medical products and determine
ongoing requirements.
- Matching employee and retiree donations to relief organizations.
Donations will be matched dollar-for-dollar.
MERCK
- Immediate cash donation of $1 million from The Merck Company
Foundation to the American Red Cross to support relief efforts.
- Working closely with affected states and relief agencies to donate
requested Merck medicines and vaccines, including such medicines as
Hepatitis A vaccine (usually needed in flood situations) and
antibiotics. Also, replacement of prescription medicines for
victims, hospitals and clinics that lost medicines in the flood.
- Ensuring that areas impacted are aware of the Merck Patient
Assistance Program, which provides donated medicines free for
eligible Americans.
- 100% match (by The Merck Company Foundation) of employee donations
to qualified relief agencies engaged in disaster relief efforts.
MILLENNIUM
- Employees will have the opportunity to provide support to those
impacted by Hurricane Katrina through payroll deductions. Donations
will be sent to both AmeriCares and the American Red Cross.
NOVARTIS
- Cash and product donations from Novartis Group companies within the
US (Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, Gerber, Sandoz, Novartis
Nutrition, Novartis Animal Health and Novartis OTC).
- Working with local government officials and third party
organizations to ship products (AmeriCares, American Red Cross).
- Novartis Hurricane Katrina Relief Employee Matching Gift Program.
NOVO NORDISK
- Donating $1 million, with half the monetary donation to provide
immediate care for people with diabetes and the other half for
general relief efforts.
- Additionally, will provide insulin products and advanced delivery
devices to help relief efforts.
- Will match all personal employee donations to the American Red
Cross.
ORGANON
- Will make cash donations.
- Matching employee donations.
- Independently raising money for relief efforts.
OTSUKA
- Cash donation of $3,000 to the American Red Cross.
- Will give additional assistance to hurricane victims in the area.
PFIZER
- Donating $1 million for rebuilding hospital and healthcare centers.
- Donating $1 million for relief organizations: the American Red
Cross, Salvation Army and the United Way of America.
- Expedited donations of medicines for both acute and chronic
conditions including high cholesterol, diabetes, hypertension,
HIV-AIDS and anti-infectives as well as consumer products.
PROCTER & GAMBLE
- Initially donating $700,000 in combined cash and products.
- Continuing to work with the American Red Cross to assess additional
needs.
- Encouraging employees to contribute to the American Red Cross.
PURDUE PHARMA
- Will match donations made by employees to the American Red Cross
and AmeriCares, up to $50,000.
- Working with AmeriCares to provide medications such as antibiotics
and antiseptics ($800,000 worth of Betadine).
ROCHE
- Matching employee donations to the American Red Cross.
- Evaluating needs for product re-supply, product donations, and
potential needs for health care system rebuilding in the devastated
areas.
- Working with the American Red Cross and other relief organizations
on the ground to see how Roche capabilities and expertise can support
their efforts.
SANOFI-AVENTIS
- Donated and already shipped injectable insulin and tablets for
diabetes to a clinic in New Orleans. Second shipment of medicines
will be sent shortly.
- Pledged $100,000 donation to provide needed medical and health
services to the children of hurricane victims.
- Donated a supply of tetanus and influenza vaccines.
- Matching employee donations.
- Continuing to work on other projects geared toward assisting
hurricane victims.
SCHERING-PLOUGH
- Initial product donation of $2,000,000.
- $500,000 cash donation.
- Offering administrative space in their Memphis office to the
American Red Cross for assisting refugees.
- Company employee match program.
SEPRACOR
- Offering a matching gift program.
SERONO
- Offering a matching gift program.
- Assisting employees who have been impacted in the regions of the
hurricane.
- Assessing needs of victims and donating products as necessary.
SOLVAY
- Offering a matching gift program.
TAKEDA
- Cash donation of $200,000 to the American Red Cross
- Product donations
- Matching employee contributions
3M
- Authorized $500,000 in employee matching gifts.
- $1,000,000 in safety, medical and cleaning products (already
shipped over 75,000 respirators).
VALEANT
- Match employee donations.
- Donate appropriate medicines to relief efforts.
- Provide support for any affected employees.
- Allow time off for employees that want to provide assistance.
WYETH
- Donating $1 million, which will be distributed to several
organizations including the American Red Cross and the Children's
Health Fund
- Established two initiatives to help provide access to prescription
medications to victims who have been tragically affected by Hurricane
Katrina.
- Matching employee donations to the American Red Cross.
- Donating needed pharmaceutical products to relief efforts.
(Bron : PhRMA, volgens gegevens van 07.09.2005)
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Katrina : les entreprises pharmaceutiques se mobilisent
Dès les premières heures qui suivirent le passage du cyclone Katrina
aux Etats-Unis, les entreprises pharmaceutiques ont tout mis en
oeuvre, avec une attention spéciale pour l'accès aux soins de santé,
afin de venir en aide aux populations victimes de la catastrophe.
Les entreprises pharmaceutiques travaillent en étroite collaboration
avec les organisations humanitaires sur le terrain afin de mobiliser
de manière optimale les ressources humaines, financières et les
produits de leur compagnie et venir en aide aux victimes du cyclone
de manière concrète et efficace. Aujourd'hui, plus de $42 millions,
également sous forme de médicaments, ont été donnés par l'industrie
pharmaceutique à la population dévastée.
Depuis ce désastre, beaucoup de patients dans les régions affectées
sont laissés sans accès à leur médication. Afin d'assister les
victimes, les entreprises pharmaceutiques font également le
nécessaire pour que les patients obtiennent leurs médicaments sous
prescription. Les entreprises travaillent avec les fournisseurs, les
médecins et les patients pour assurer la distribution ininterrompue
des médicaments.
En annexe, vous trouverez un aperçu des dons et des initiatives des
entreprises pharmaceutiques.
Personnes de contact :
- Leo Neels, Directeur général, ln@pharma.be, 02 238 99 62
- Caroline Trouet, Directeur général adjoint, ct@pharma.be, 02 238 99
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ANNEXE
ABBOTT
-Pledged $2 million in cash donations.
-Working with relief agencies to provide at least $3.5 million in
nutritional and medical product donations.
AMGEN
-Initial cash donation of $2.5 million and establishing a
company-wide Hurricane Katrina Relief Program in support of
humanitarian aid, with a special focus on access to health care.
-The Amgen Foundation will match all staff contributions via their
relief site.
- Working to ensure uninterrupted distribution of products to
suppliers, physicians and most importantly, patients in the impacted
areas.
AMYLIN
- Donated $100,000 to the American Red Cross and will match all
employee contributions up to an additional $100,000.
- Also donating $50,000 to the Pennington Medical Center at the
Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge for the establishment of an
emergency diabetes clinic to serve individuals who are now homeless
or unable to access proper care and medications.
ASTELLAS
- Donating $250,000 to the American Red Cross for relief efforts.
- Additionally, Astellas will match employee contributions up to
$50,000 to the American Red Cross.
- Evaluating what antibiotics should be delivered to relief areas.
ASTRAZENECA
- Initial cash donation of $1 million to the American Red Cross.
- Will match company employee donations to the American Red Cross
dollar-for-dollar.
- Will make product donations to national and local disaster relief
organizations providing aid to hurricane affected areas along with
free medicines to patients and clinics through the company's Patient
Assistance Programs.
BAYER
- Donations have doubled since their initial pledge and are now close
to $4 million in cash and goods.
- Ready to ship more than 45,000 blood glucose monitors and test
strips to help hurricane victims with diabetes.
- Will match Bayer employee donations dollar-for-dollar, which will
then be donated to the American Red Cross.
BMS
- Donated $1.1 million in cash to the American Red Cross.
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation has had over 1,000 U.S. employees
donate to the American Red Cross through participation in their
matching gift program.
- Mead Johnson Nutritionals has provided more than 2 million bottles
or cans of infant formula and other nutritional products valued at
over $3.5 million.
- Will donate ostomy, wound care and skin care products worth
approximately $200,000 for hurricane victims.
- Working with company's relief agency partners to arrange the
donation and distribution of Bristol-Myers Squibb medicines.
BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM
- Donating up to $600,000 in cash and additional product donations as
needed.
CEPHALON
- Matching employee donations to hurricane relief organizations.
DAIICHI
- Donating $10,000 to the American Red Cross.
- Matching employee donations to the American Red Cross.
EISAI
- Donating a total of $1.25 million in cash -- $1 million from parent
company Eisai Co., Ltd., headquartered in Tokyo, and $250,000 from
Eisai U.S.
- Will also match employee donations.
ELI LILLY
- Donating $1 million to the American Red Cross.
- Donating $1 million in insulin products and an additional $1
million for other products.
- Plans to send 40,000 vials of refrigerated insulin.
- Will match dollar-for-dollar employee contributions to the American
Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund.
GENZYME
- Will make product donations.
- Matching employee contribution program.
GLAXOSMITHKLINE
- Donated one million dollars to relief funds -- $500,000 to the
American Red Cross, $250,000 to the Mississippi Hurricane Fund and
$250,000 to the Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation.
- Donated approximately 3 million dollars in prescription drug
products (based on wholesale acquisition cost).
- Donated products include antibiotics and medicines for diabetes,
respiratory conditions, cardiovascular disease, and epilepsy.
- Matching employee contributions.
JOHNSON & JOHNSON
- Donating an initial $5 million in cash to various relief and
charitable organizations.
- In addition, donated in excess of $1 million worth of essential
disaster relief products including 5,000 personal care kits and two
Disaster Relief Modules to MAP International.
- Donations have included non-prescription pain relievers, wound care
products, prescription medicines and surgical products.
- Working closely with disaster relief organizations to meet the
immediate needs for personal care and medical products and determine
ongoing requirements.
- Matching employee and retiree donations to relief organizations.
Donations will be matched dollar-for-dollar.
MERCK
- Immediate cash donation of $1 million from The Merck Company
Foundation to the American Red Cross to support relief efforts.
- Working closely with affected states and relief agencies to donate
requested Merck medicines and vaccines, including such medicines as
Hepatitis A vaccine (usually needed in flood situations) and
antibiotics. Also, replacement of prescription medicines for
victims, hospitals and clinics that lost medicines in the flood.
- Ensuring that areas impacted are aware of the Merck Patient
Assistance Program, which provides donated medicines free for
eligible Americans.
- 100% match (by The Merck Company Foundation) of employee donations
to qualified relief agencies engaged in disaster relief efforts.
MILLENNIUM
- Employees will have the opportunity to provide support to those
impacted by Hurricane Katrina through payroll deductions. Donations
will be sent to both AmeriCares and the American Red Cross.
NOVARTIS
- Cash and product donations from Novartis Group companies within the
US (Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, Gerber, Sandoz, Novartis
Nutrition, Novartis Animal Health and Novartis OTC).
- Working with local government officials and third party
organizations to ship products (AmeriCares, American Red Cross).
- Novartis Hurricane Katrina Relief Employee Matching Gift Program.
NOVO NORDISK
- Donating $1 million, with half the monetary donation to provide
immediate care for people with diabetes and the other half for
general relief efforts.
- Additionally, will provide insulin products and advanced delivery
devices to help relief efforts.
- Will match all personal employee donations to the American Red
Cross.
ORGANON
- Will make cash donations.
- Matching employee donations.
- Independently raising money for relief efforts.
OTSUKA
- Cash donation of $3,000 to the American Red Cross.
- Will give additional assistance to hurricane victims in the area.
PFIZER
- Donating $1 million for rebuilding hospital and healthcare centers.
- Donating $1 million for relief organizations: the American Red
Cross, Salvation Army and the United Way of America.
- Expedited donations of medicines for both acute and chronic
conditions including high cholesterol, diabetes, hypertension,
HIV- AIDS and anti- infectives as well as consumer products.
PROCTER & GAMBLE
- Initially donating $700,000 in combined cash and products.
- Continuing to work with the American Red Cross to assess additional
needs.
- Encouraging employees to contribute to the American Red Cross.
PURDUE PHARMA
- Will match donations made by employees to the American Red Cross
and
AmeriCares, up to $50,000.
- Working with AmeriCares to provide medications such as antibiotics
and antiseptics ($800,000 worth of Betadine).
ROCHE
- Matching employee donations to the American Red Cross.
- Evaluating needs for product re- supply, product donations, and
potential needs for health care system rebuilding in the devastated
areas.
- Working with the American Red Cross and other relief organizations
on the ground to see how Roche capabilities and expertise can support
their efforts.
SANOFI- AVENTIS
- Donated and already shipped injectable insulin and tablets for
diabetes to a clinic in New Orleans. Second shipment of medicines
will be sent shortly.
- Pledged $100,000 donation to provide needed medical and health
services to the children of hurricane victims.
- Donated a supply of tetanus and influenza vaccines.
- Matching employee donations.
- Continuing to work on other projects geared toward assisting
hurricane victims.
SCHERING- PLOUGH
- Initial product donation of $2,000,000.
- $500,000 cash donation.
- Offering administrative space in their Memphis office to the
American Red Cross for assisting refugees.
- Company employee match program.
SEPRACOR
- Offering a matching gift program.
SERONO
- Offering a matching gift program.
- Assisting employees who have been impacted in the regions of the
hurricane.
- Assessing needs of victims and donating products as necessary.
SOLVAY
- Offering a matching gift program.
TAKEDA
- Cash donation of $200,000 to the American Red Cross
- Product donations
- Matching employee contributions
3M
- Authorized $500,000 in employee matching gifts.
- $1,000,000 in safety, medical and cleaning products (already
shipped
over 75,000 respirators).
VALEANT
- Match employee donations.
- Donate appropriate medicines to relief efforts.
- Provide support for any affected employees.
- Allow time off for employees that want to provide assistance.
WYETH
- Donating $1 million, which will be distributed to several
organizations including the American Red Cross and the Children's
Health Fund
- Established two initiatives to help provide access to prescription
medications to victims who have been tragically affected by Hurricane
Katrina.
- Matching employee donations to the American Red Cross.
- Donating needed pharmaceutical products to relief efforts.
(Source : PhRMA, selon les données du 07.09.2005)
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