Severin Schwan, Roche CEO (Sebastien Bozon/AFP via Getty Images)

De­spite 'los­ing mon­ey' in Rus­sia, Roche com­mits to con­tin­u­ing its sup­ply of es­sen­tial med­i­cines — re­port

Roche joined a hand­ful of phar­ma com­pa­nies in promis­ing to con­tin­ue its sup­ply of es­sen­tial med­i­cines to Rus­sia — but that promise has come at a cost, CEO Sev­erin Schwan re­vealed.

In an in­ter­view with the Swiss news­pa­per Tages-Anzeiger, Schwan reaf­firmed his com­mit­ment to pro­vid­ing life-sav­ing can­cer drugs to Rus­sia, adding that there is an “in­ter­na­tion­al con­sen­sus that med­i­cines are ex­empt from sanc­tions.”

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