Global Health: We support Egypt’s provision of life-saving vaccines and the localization of industry
Dr. said. Nima Abed, representative of the World Health Organization, said that the Covid-19 pandemic highlighted the urgent need for countries to strengthen their orientations towards providing local needs for vaccines, to protect their people, which is what Egypt worked on by seeking to bring in global technologies and issuing approvals for the first integrated vaccine factory.
During the conference launching the first integrated vaccine factory in Egypt and the Middle East, he praised Egypt’s achievement as the first African country to reach the third level of maturity, in the field of medicines. And vaccines, which will help it provide 40% of the vaccines used in Africa by 2040, with products manufactured with world-class quality.
The representative of the World Health Organization pointed out that locally manufactured vaccines reach global markets, through partnerships, and the organization remains a strong advocate for the localization of the vaccine industry in Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean region, and for making life-saving vaccines available in a timely manner. appropriate.
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