The members of the Medical Supplies Division of Cairo Chamber of Commerce and the Chamber of Medical Industries at the Egyptian Federation of Industries expressed their rejection of the draft law on establishing high-level body of medicine which made by pharmacists and pharmaceutical policies sector at the Ministry of Health. This draft aimed at dominating and possessing the medical supplies sector. They pointed that a central administration at the Ministry of Health should be established to be concerned with all the affairs of medical supplies, Similar to the management of pharmaceutical policies, which should be helped by specialized technical cadres in the field of medical supplies and not graduates from faculty of Pharmacy.

The head of the Division for medical supplies, Mohammad Ismail Abdou, said that the draft law submitted by the Association of Pharmacists does not achieve any real progress in the health care, but on the contrary it fosters pharmacists' domination on the whole medical care sector. One of the articles of the draft law stipulates on The Pharmacists' Possession Rate of 51% of the capital of any company operating in the field of production and circulation of medical supplies, which is unconstitutional and contravenes all international norms, practices and we will resort to all legal means to cancel it. He resumed that the medical supplies is engineering products, which doctors needs to do their jobs to the fullest. All the Medical more than 8000 products are not taught in the colleges of pharmacy, whether in Egypt or abroad, but in the faculties of engineering or in Faculties of science.

He added that the medical supplies that are currently traded through pharmacies are represented no more than one of every thousands of the total number of supplies ratio, while the most of them through specialized shops belonged to the same production companies.