Iran Press/ Iran news: In the inauguration ceremony of Acetaminophen production line in Kimiagaran Pharmaceutical Company on Sunday, Saeed Namaki noted: "Based on the Leader’s speech and the slogan of the current year -'Surge in Production'- we have inaugurated the first factory in producing pharmaceutical raw materials."
"Due to our supports of local production and controlling imports we could save 700 million Euros", he highlighted.
Namaki added: "Considering the recent condition of our country and dealing with various diseases, we predicted to need 50% more currency for medicine but we used only 20%more since we have focused on our local producers and did not import any medicine which had similar indigenous ones."
The minister went on to say: "We could control the Coronavirus while severe sanctions were imposed on us, and in 60 days the country which was in need has turned into a producer and then exporter."
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Minister of Health stated: "We are planning to decrease 20% in pharmacy currency in the coming year and building 44 hospitals with local materials which will be a new record in the history of our country."
In the inauguration ceremony of Acetaminophen production line in Kimiagaran Pharmaceutical Company which was held through video conference, Head of Food and Drug Organization Mohammad Reza Shanesaz said: "Today we witness a practical step in the resistive economy and try to rely less on selling petroleum products."
Shanesaz added: "We will turn to a country that produces the products that the world will depend on us." 207
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