Iran’s drugs exports hundredfold in 15 years

Rasoul Dinarvand made the remarks in a ceremony held on Sunday to unveil Iranian made drug for quitting smoking called ‘Varenicline’.

“We aim at developing pharmaceutical industry while some $ 3b dollars of different kinds of drugs are being produced domestically and drugs worth $ 1b are being imported,” he said.

“Drugs import had a fall of 500 million dollars in the last three years,” he said.

He emphasized that Iran is capable of boosting exports, saying that drug export was over $ 2m 15 years ago and now it has reached $ 200m.

During the event, the production line of cephalosporin suspension was also inaugurated with the attendance of Dinarvand and some other officials.

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