Pharmaceutical Plant Inaugurated in Southern Afghanistan

The company Snow Pharma, complying with all international product standards, has been funded by 71 shareholders from the country's national traders at a cost of 50 million US dollars, with over 600 workers producing a large amount of medicine needed in the country, the statement said.

"The factory's first phase, which has now been utilized, can produce 5.6 million tablets, 2 million capsules and 60,000 bottles of syrup in an eight-hour work time," Mohammad Sayed Seddiq, the chief of the company, said at the opening ceremony as quoted by the statement.

According to the statement, the two remaining phases are expected to be inaugurated soon.

According to Abdul Bari Omar, the head of the country's National Food and Drug Agency, 86 pharmaceutical factories exist in Afghanistan, of which 60 are operational with more than 610 types of products, which can meet 70 percent of Afghanistan's medicines needs.

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