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Etienne Jornod, president of OM Pharma in Geneva: “We must not lower the price of medicines in a linear fashion”

Published on December 13, 2024 at 7:21 p.m. / Modified on December 13, 2024 at 8:35 p.m.

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Etienne Jornod is not in the habit of monopolizing media space. It is in the companies he manages that the tireless native of Neuchâtel feels best. Known for having radically transformed the Bernese group Galenica in the 1990s, praised for having repositioned the New Zurich newspaper of which he was president until 2023, he now presides over the destiny of OM Pharma in Geneva and is coming out of his reserve. Just to rant about the method used to lower the price of medicines in Switzerland, to talk about his ambitions for his company, probably the largest pharma in the City of Calvin, but also to recall the importance of a thousand nuances gray in public debate.

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