Egyptian Minister of Health Visits The New Insulin Production Line at MUP Tech. Factory”
Egyptian Minister of Heath and Population Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar announced on Tuesday that Egypt’s Medical Union Pharmaceutical Company (MUP) is launching a new high capacity production line for insulin
The minister said that Egypt will begin exporting insulin to African countries as soon as it attains self-sufficiency.
The minister’s remarks came during a meeting with Chairman of the Arab Company for Drug Industries and Medical Appliances, Olfat Ghorab & Chairman of Medical Union Pharmaceutical Company Dr. Ahmed Lila
The meeting was held on the sidelines of an inspection tour of MUP Tech During the meeting, the minister asserted the need for localizing the pharmaceutical industries in Egypt in order to attain self-sufficiency, and then export abroad, according to Ministry of Health Spokesman Hossam Abdel-Ghaffar.
The pharmaceutical industry is one of the pillars of Egyptian national security, Abdel-Ghaffar added.
He pointed out that the recently opened large pharmaceutical factories have placed Egypt among the major countries in the field of pharmaceutical industries.
According to the WHO, the number of diabetics worldwide is 422 million, and is expected to reach 500 million by 2030.
Seventeen percent of Egyptian adults aged 20 to 79 have diabetes, which means that Egypt ranks 9th among countries with the highest cases of diabetes.
Egypt is expected to rise to the 8th rank on the same scale by 2030