SDI: We can meet the country's need for some drugs by 100%

 
Baghdad-INA
 
The State Company for the Drug Industry and Medical Appliances in Samarra (SDI), announced Monday, contracting to establish factories for the production of cancer drugs inside Iraq, while indicating the ability to cover the country's need for some medical drugs by 100%.
 
The director of the company, Khaled Mohie Alwan, said in a statement to the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that "SDI has mobilized all its cadres to develop a comprehensive study of the special needs of the Ministry of Health and local markets, including some products that can be produced through the company's factories," noting, "according to the questionnaires conducted by the company’s cadres, it was found that there is a dire need for cancer drugs that were not previously produced inside the country.”
 
Alwan added, "The company hastened, under the guidance of the Minister of Industry and Minerals, to establish new investment projects related to the transfer of modern technology, especially in preparations that are manufactured for the first time, the purpose of which is to meet the needs of the Ministry of Health and local markets," noting that " Cancer drugs are manufactured according to their own standards and environment, and factories of a technical nature that differ from other factories.”
 
He continued, "These new factories will achieve a qualitative leap for SDI, in addition to modernizing its products and marketing them to the Ministry of Health," noting that "SDI plan has kept pace with the development in the field of medicines in the world."