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Galicia Approves €100 Million CAR-T Purchase for 250 Multiple Myeloma Patients

Officials say centralized purchasing savings make the outlay possible.

Overview

  • The Consello de la Xunta authorized the acquisition and President Alfonso Rueda announced it after the meeting.
  • Health chief Antonio Gómez Caamaño cited €65 million in savings from Sergas’s centralized procurement to justify reinvestment in advanced therapies.
  • The plan will bring two CAR‑T medicines into the public health system at an estimated cost of about €400,000 per patient, according to officials.
  • Multiple myeloma is identified by the Xunta as Galicia’s second most common hematologic cancer targeted by the program.
  • Rueda said local manufacturing of advanced therapies is planned to start next year in Santiago.