Imagine a Nuclear War has happened and New Zealand is one of the last remaining countries. We can’t trade with anyone and have to rely on ourselves.

Is this something worth preparing for, with producing own medicines, or something not to worry about.

New Zealand does not commercially manufacture its own commercial cancer drugs on a mass scale; nearly all approved cancer medicines used in New Zealand are imported from international pharmaceutical companies.

Lack of Infrastructure: New Zealand lacks the heavy industrial petrochemical refining and large-scale chemical synthesis plants required to manufacture modern common medicines like paracetamol, amoxicillin, or ibuprofen