You face a very real short term trade off between manufacturing at a higher cost in the destination country (thereby saving fewer lives) and manufacturing at a

You face a very real short term trade off between manufacturing at a higher cost in the destination country (thereby saving fewer lives) and manufacturing at a lower cost elsewhere (thereby saving more lives but contributing less to the local economy). I would argue you want to do the latter because both net and medicine manufacturing are capital intensive - a small number of people are employed despite the large cost of setting up a factory. Most of the local economic contribution is going to come from hiring people to handle distribution.