Minister of Pharmaceutical Industry, Ali Aoun, during his participation in the 22nd International Pharmaceutical Forum (FPI) held in Dakar (Senegal), stressed the need to promote fruitful African partnerships through the involvement of economic operators, said the ministry in a statement on Tuesday.
At the opening ceremony of the 22nd FPI in Dakar, held last Friday, the Minister said that his ministerial department “is working to achieve an exceptional, global and open partnership on the African continent, through which it aims to create investment, develop production capacities and safeguard jobs,” said the source.
Given its strategic importance, the pharmaceutical production sector is working to ” set up a fruitful African partnership based essentially on technical and economic cooperation through the involvement of the various pharmaceutical operators,” added the same source.
The are “almost 196 pharmaceutical production units, and we hope to create further development and expansion as part of sub-regional and continental integration,” said the minister.
The Minister further called for “the adoption of a consensual and continental approach between the various African countries to develop pharmaceutical industry on the continent, through the introduction of several approaches, such as the creation of regional industrial centres, with a view to improving the exploitation of Africa’s industrial fabric.
Source: Algeria Press Service