Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi said today that the country’s medicine factory is ready to produce drugs for the world, following certification by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
‘We now have a worldwide certificate. The medicine that leaves here goes everywhere. Here in the region, apart from the factories that have existed for a long time (…) there is no factory like yours,’ said Filipe Nyusi, during a visit to the National Medicines Factory in Maputo province, southern Mozambique.
The head of state announced that the factory, which produces 83 different types of drugs, was recently certified by the WHO, after several inspections by that organisation, to expand its production to the international market.
‘[The factory] is already producing for us, but it’s ready to produce for the world,’ Nyusi declared, noting the capacity for growth and expansion into the “vaccination line or injectables”.
The Mozambican President also highlighted the ‘high standard and quality’ of the medicines produced at the unit, considering that the venture should also help to reduce the illegal acquisition of drugs, through the ‘vulgarisation of tablets’, to counter counter counterfeiting.
‘Those who buy stolen medicines no longer have much space. In a short time we will vulgarise the pill in the sense that it can be bought very easily,’ said Filipe Nyusi.
The factory was inaugurated in 2015 and produces millions of medicines a year, with at least 250 employees, including nationals and foreigners, most of them young people, the President emphasised.
‘The factory has existed since 2015 (…) it is only growing and has now reached a point where we are going to internationalise. It has the ‘made in Mozambique’ patent, it has the international patent from the World Health Organisation, so we can sell wherever we can,’ concluded the Mozambican President.
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