Closing Down 20 Drug Companies [Archives:2001/08/Local News]

Dr. Abdulwali Nasher, Health Minister, asserted that forty treatment grants were provided to Yemen annually by the Egyptian Health Ministry within the scheme of mutual cooperation between the two brotherly countries.
In a statement to YT while attending a meeting with PHARCO board director Hassan Abbas, he said “There are many fields of cooperation, including training Yemeni health workers to deal with the new instruments and labs. Through this , Yemeni workers will be able to treat cases of diseases that at the moment are usually sent abroad.”
He indicated that the Ministry closed, in the past year, 20 drug companies whose drugs were not following requirements and specifications defined by the Ministry. The Health Minister signed cooperation agreements with PHARCO headed by its board director Mr. Hassan Abbas, to train and qualify Yemeni pharmacists and doctors. He also noted that there is a joint agreement between Yemen and Egypt stipulating that if Egyptian drug exports to Yemen exceed $ 30 million, a specific sum will be added to the Health Ministry budget to help in training Yemeni health workers. The meeting was attended by the Egyptian Ambassador to Yemen, the Egyptian trade attach and top figures from the health Ministry, General Drugs Authority and the PHARCO agent in Yemen Mr. Abdulrashid al-Amiri.

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