Premier held visiting session on pharmaceutics in S Kazakhstan
MKENT. October 30. KAZINFORM /Tatyana Pylayeva/ Kazakhstan Prime Minister Karim Massimov has held a visiting session with the State Commission on the Economy Modernization in South Kazakhstan region.
The Commission started its work at "Himfarm" JSC. The issues of the development of the pharmaceutical complex within the forced industrial-innovative development program were discussed here. To date the leadership of the country sets strategic goals on the development of the pharmaceutical sector, including provision of 50% of the domestic requirements in medicaments by means of the domestic medicaments producers, introduction of the world standards at the pharmaceutical enterprises by 2014.
As a developing sector, the pharmaceutical industry of Kazakhstan is represented by 79 manufacturers of medical and pharmaceutical products. The share of the five biggest plants of the country is over 90% of all medicaments produced in Kazakhstan.
The rate of the domestic producers increased from 3% to 10% in 15 years. The work on expansion of home pharmaceutical production is ongoing. A program on organization of the production of vaccines, insulin, antibiotics and other medicaments will be adopted in December. Construction of pharmaceutical manufactories in Astana and Shymkent is scheduled as well.