Egypt’s Health Minister Hala Zayed announced the establishment of a pharmaceutical plant affiliated to the Holding Company for Pharmaceuticals in Chad. The standardization of registration means making Egyptian medicine in those countries available and saving the time (two years) and financial costs of the registration of medicine in those countries, Zayed said. She added Egypt currently sends doctors from the public and private sectors to the Nile Basin countries to treat patients. This initiative will also be an opportunity to spread Egyptian medicine and open markets for the pharmaceutical sector. This is an opportunity to export pharmaceutical medicine in Africa and an opportunity to treat one million people infected with HIV in the Nile Basin countries, said Zayed.

Source: Egypt Independent January 16, 2019 15:11 UTC