New department for manufacturing tablets and capsules at al-Dimas medicine factory

Damascus Countryside (ST): The Minister of Health Dr. Nizar Yaziji was briefed on the final preparations for opening a new department for manufacturing tablets and capsules at al-Dimas Factory for pharmaceutical industries.

In a statement, Dr. Yaziji said that the new department, which will start production next September, in proof continuous development of the Syrian pharmaceutical industry despite the difficult circumstances Syria passed through, noting that there are about 96 medicine factories working to meet citizens’ needs and export various kinds of medicine to 16 states in the world.

He added that the government has been ensuring the arrival of raw materials for medicine factories, stressing that  production with high quality and international specifications  did not stop despite the challenges resulting from the US unilateral coercive economic sanctions imposed on Syria.

In turn, Head of the Scientific Council of the Pharmaceutical Industry Dr. Zoheir Fadloun said that al-Dimas Factory has been witnessing a modernization process since 2016, noting that priority is given now to reduce the list of imports and ensure missing and qualitative medicines.

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