Health Ministry: Implementing a program to manufacture imported medicines inside Iraq

Baghdad-INA  
The Ministry of Health confirmed today, Wednesday, the implementation of a program to manufacture imported medicines inside Iraq, while revealing that the percentage of local medicines sold to the Ministry had increased to 40%. 
 
Khamis Al-Saad, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health, told the Iraqi News Agency (INA) that “Drug localization is one of the important files that the ministry worked on during the previous years,” noting that “there was an import of large quantities of medicines from outside the country, and localization will reduce it.”
 
  "The government program emphasized the revitalization of the pharmaceutical industry inside Iraq, and many private factories began to open inside the country." Al-Saad said.
 
He pointed out, "Some imported medicines have now begun to be manufactured inside Iraq, and we have begun a promising and large program to manufacture it inside Iraq and simplify procedures for laboratories," pointing out that "sales to the Ministry of Health have reached 40 percent, which is a large percentage within a short period."