Potential EU drug voucher scheme criticized - "a random group of patients will foot the bill"

The EU is attempting to use a transferable voucher to entice companies to develop new antibiotics. However, this could be expensive for patients, critics say.
Jakob Wested, business postdoc at the Danish Medicines Agency and the Center for Advanced Studies in Biomedical Innovation Law (CeBIL) at the University of Copenhagen.
Jakob Wested, business postdoc at the Danish Medicines Agency and the Center for Advanced Studies in Biomedical Innovation Law (CeBIL) at the University of Copenhagen.

The issues surrounding antimicrobial resistance (AMR) are by now very well known. 

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