The impact of the increase in import verification fees on local production capacity of selected medicines in Uganda

Figures & data

Table 1 Characteristics of pharmaceutical industry

Table 2 Number of employees working in the industries

Table 3 Comparison of production before (2016/2017) and after (2018/2019) the introduction of the 12% import verification fees

Fig. 1 Average units of different dosage forms produced from 2016 to 2019

Table 4 Installed equipment capacity for granulation/blending line, compression machine, capsulation machine, BFS filling machines and oral rehydration salt (ORS) line

Table 5 Availability of critical quality control equipment

Table 6 Capacity of installed utilities

Table 7 Perceptions of KIs on impact of 12% increment on local production

Availability of data and materials

The data for the study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.