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Iran unveiled a domestically designed high-tech pharmaceutical machine and nine new drugs on the sidelines of an international health exhibition in Tehran. The 14th Iran Health Exhibition in Tehran saw a glass-lined reactor designed and manufactured after 12 years of research by Iranian experts. The machine is capable of producing active pharmaceutical compounds, which are the main ingredients of medicines. “Most active pharmaceutical compounds contain acids and therefore anti-corrosive environments are required in order to produce most drugs,” Project Manager Faramarz Ekhteraei said. “With the technology that we have used, the steel container is lines with three-millimeter-thick glass,” explained Ekhteraei, who heads Iran’s Chemical and Pharmaceutical Raw Material Syndicate. Iranian Health Minister Marzieh Vahid-Dastjerdi took pride in the reactor as a great achievement for Iran. “There are only five countries that are capable of manufacturing these reactors. We are proud that Iran is among them,” she said. “There are only five countries in the world capable of manufacturing such reactors. We are proud that Iran is among them and I have to add that with the high standards and latest technology employed in this machine, we can look forward to making high-quality drugs in the country,” Vahid-Dastjerdi said. Along with the glass-lined reactor, the exhibition also showed off nine new domestically produced asthma and cancer medicines. “The medicines include drugs meant for curing infertility, cancer, MS (multiple sclerosis), asthma and pulmonary diseases,” the Iranian health minister said. “Five of these drugs were produced by one company and four others by three other domestic firms...Their final price is 60 to 70 percent lower than their foreign counterparts,” Mehr news agency quoted her as saying. The medicines in question also include three inhalers which are made based on the most common asthma treatments and are expected to save the country 20 million dollars in pharmaceutical imports, said Ali Montaseri, the Managing Director of Jaber Ebne Hayyan pharmaceutical company. Another product on display is nasal drops, also expected to save 10 million dollars for the country, Montaseri added. Iran’s osseointegrated titanium implants, incusing skull and face implants, were among the latest medical developments in the Tehran exhibit. | ||
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