Upharmacia February 2017 | Page 10

Upharmacia February 2017 CIS REGION PHARMA NEWS A zerbaijan — — Ukraine and Azerbaijan consider the development of joint pharmaceutical company to produce drugs in Azerbaijan, the First Secretary for Economic Affairs of the Ukrainian Embassy in Azerbaijan said. The construction of the plant for the production of infusion solutions is expected to start in 2017. — — The MOH prohibited employees of pharmaceutical companies to visit medical organizations during working hours in order to promote any production. — — Arab Emirates company VPS Healthcare signed the Memorandum with Azerbaijani investment company on the intention to build a plant for the production of drugs in Azerbaijan. The company has one plant in Dubai and is building another one in Abu Dhabi. B elarus — — Belarus delegation headed by the Chairman of Republican Council visite d the Iranian company Tofigh Daru to discuss the possibilities of localization of joined production in Belarus through the establishment of a joint venture as well as by cooperation between the pharmaceutical companies of Iran and Belarus. — — Slovak company BioMed considering the opportunity to join Vitebsk medical-pharmaceutical cluster to conduct joint research programs in the field of diagnosis and treatment of cancer. G eorgia — — Georgian company GM Pharmaceuticals signed a new agreement with German company WeltPharma on the production of its drugs in Germany. The companies have been cooperating for 3 years. GMP manufactures about 200 products in Georgia and abroad and sells more than 100 medications in various countries of the world. K azakhstan — — The management of Single Distributor SK-Pharmacy was fired after the President of Kazakhstan had publicly accused it of corruption. Maksim Kasatkin, the former head of public procurements department of Kazakhstan, has become the new Chairman of the Board of the company. R ussia — — International pharmaceutical holding Besins Healthcare intends to start the construction of the pharmaceutical plant in Yaroslavl pharmaceutical cluster in 10 www.upharma-c.com