How Patient Do Chinese Patients Need to Be?

12/15/15 • -1 min

Access to quality drugs is becoming a critical issue in China’s journey toward modernizing its healthcare system.

In this podcast, Nick Leung talks to Franck Le Deu, Jin Wang, and Fangning Zhang about the challenges Chinese patients face in obtaining the drugs they need, and the role pharmaceutical makers need to play in addressing this issue.

Franck, Jin, and Fangning are Partners with McKinsey’s Healthcare Practice in China. Nick is Managing Partner of McKinsey’s Greater China Practice.

Access to quality drugs is becoming a critical issue in China’s journey toward modernizing its healthcare system.

Franck, Jin, and Fangning are Partners with McKinsey’s Healthcare Practice in China. Nick is Managing Partner of McKinsey’s Greater China Practice.

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