Nasser Al -Din: Investing in pharmaceutical factories is a successful national adventure

The Minister of Public Health, Dr. Rakan Nasser Al -Din, visited this afternoon, “The Benta” Factory for Medicines, where he toured his sections and was briefed on the stages of development that he had passed since its foundation in the year 1968. He was received by the head of the Pharmaceutical Factory Syndicate in Lebanon, Dr. Carole Abi Karam, Chairman of the Director General of the Benta Bernard Tannouri and members of the Board of Directors,
Then Minister Nasser Al -Din gave a speech in which he said: “I am honored to visit a factory from the national factories that we are proud of, this visit is a continuation of our visits to support the Lebanese factory, so we cannot stand as a Lebanese state and say that we have economic policies and we exclude the health and pharmaceutical sector in Lebanon, on this basis and as we have met you repeatedly with the national manufacturers who have already proven to us and not in words that they are at a high level Providing job opportunities and competitive ability in Lebanon and the region, and on a permanent partnership, and here I want to mention the union role between these laboratories in this topic until it has become an integrated role, we see high quality and a great name, and we, as a health ministry, we will complete with this partnership and develop them, while support is by speeding registration, developing tenders and activating mechanisms through the committees approved by us, whether in the factories committee or in the technical committees located within the ministry Health. ”He added:“ Today our visit to tell you that the state stands with you and beside you, and here the integration must be between the ministries of industry and health, and there will be a media campaign to emphasize the role of the Lebanese medicine, provided that any news about any Lebanese factory in the Ministry of Health will be reviewed to prevent damage to factories, because we have to protect the factory, help and support it, especially since our procedures are clear, as well A kind of manipulation of the health of the Lebanese citizen. After presenting a documentary film on the company’s activity and a tour of its departments, Nasser Al -Din gave a speech in which he said: “We made an important tour of a number of national pharmaceutical factories to confirm our support for them in these difficult circumstances, where investing in Lebanon is dangerous to the point of up to the level of adventure, today we confirm that the pharmaceutical factories are a successful investment and we support these efforts made by these factories, including securing job opportunities for the Lebanese citizen, securing medicine and medicine, and securing our need Pharmacy, as to export this national production outside Lebanon, this effort was made by several factories in cooperation with the Ministry of Health, we are with it to register their medicine in the country and give them the licenses required to continue and give them preference in national tenders, and this is what factories always notice and we are with them in this circumstance and in all circumstances. (National Agency)