Venezuela produces over 70% of medicines, surgery material http://www.abn.info.ve/node/63020

Venezuela produces over 70 percent of its medicines and surgery material, informed this Thursday the vice-minister of health resources and supplies of the Health Ministry, Isabel Iturria.Even though it is quite impossible that a country such as Venezuela -she said-, with almost 30 million inhabitants, may produce the overall supplies it demands, there is a large number of medical items used nationwide which are produced here.

As part of international accords the country has signed, there is an accord signed by Venezuela"s Ministry of Science, Technology and Intermediate Industries with Cuba to set a joint venture of medicines production in central state Miranda.“Works in the area have already began. These have progressed a lot. In about two or three years, this project should be fully producing medicines,” Iturria said.

Nowadays, she added, there is being conducted a feasibility study to set in Venezuela a plant of medicines such as antibiotics, penicilina and cephalosporin, which will be created together with Portugal.Another project analyzed is the creation in Venezuela of another plant to produce medicines with capital of a Colombian venture. Also, there has been raised the feasibility of a bill over the creation of an industry of surgery material, through an accord with China.

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