Reading one market's full register against its national essential medicines list, we found twelve
ophthalmic molecules with no human-medicine registration in the country at all — not a thin
market, an empty one. Glaucoma drops, diagnostic mydriatics, topical anaesthetics, an antifungal
for a condition that blinds people there every year.
Weeks earlier, one of the larger distributors in that market had asked us for one of those twelve
by name, unprompted. Demand on one side, nothing registered on the other, and no way for either
party to see the other without reading 9,000 certificates line by line.
For a manufacturer with a sterile ophthalmic line, that is not a lead. It is a category with no
incumbent to displace and a buyer already asking. That is the kind of position we are looking for
on your portfolio.
Essential medicines cross-referenced664
Ophthalmic molecules with no supplier12
Registered in the country0