Premier: Government Provides all Facilities to Promote the Pharmaceutical Industry

DAMASCUS, (ST) – The Prime Minister Eng. Emad Khamis, met here on Monday with the Chairman and members of the Executive Bureau of the Arab Pharmacists Federation led by Dr. Mohieddin Obaid. The meeting dealt with a number of issues relating to improving the reality of the pharmaceutical industries, providing support for them, recording medicines among different Arab countries, the possibility of producing medicines of high quality and the need to enhance cooperation between medicine-concerned Arab organizations and pharmacy profession and scientific cooperation.

 During the meeting, the participants reviewed the reality of pharmaceutical industries in Syria and the government plan to restore these industries, which Syria has characterized for decades despite the systematic destruction of many drug factories by terrorism and unilateral coercive measures imposed on the Syrian people.

Talks focused on the importance of developing cooperation relations between the relevant Syrian institutions and the Arab Pharmacists Federation and laying a real foundation for this cooperation, through which they will provide support to the pharmaceutical industries and to identify the reality of the factories and transfer the various types of technologies needed for them.

Eng. Khamis said that the start of the 108th meeting of the Executive Bureau and the General Secretariat of the Arab Pharmacists Federation today in Damascus is evidence that Syria has started the recovery phase in various economic fields, pointing out that the government provides all kinds of administrative and financial facilities and infrastructure to promote this industry again.

Members of the delegation expressed their appreciation for the efforts exerted by the Syrian government to improve the reality of the pharmaceutical industries and to develop them in recognition of the quality of the Syrian medicine, which achieved great spread regionally and internationally during the pre-war years, confirming their readiness to provide all kinds of support for the return of the Syrian pharmaceutical industries.

Sh. Kh.