Head of the Department for Cooperation with European Countries and EU Institutions of the Uzbek Foreign Ministry Oybek Shakhavdinov met in Stockholm with a representative of the Swedish company AstraZeneca AB.
During the talks, issues of establishing cooperation to ensure the quality and safety of medicines produced and imported to Uzbekistan were discussed, the Dune news agency reports.
Preliminary agreements have also been reached on professional development of national personnel in the field of oncology, neurology, diabetes, genetics and respiratory diseases.
Since the beginning of the year, the Committee for the Development of Competition and Consumer Protection has revealed price overstatement when selling medicines in 473 pharmacies, the press service of the department reported.
The Committee for the Development of Competition and Consumer Protection instructed five manufacturers to re-register their dietary supplements for dehydration as medicines. The process of removing them from retail chains has also already begun.
In the first quarter of this year, the pharmaceutical company produced 1 trillion 157 billion soums of drugs and medicines in Uzbekistan, Sevara Tolaganova, the head of the information service of the AOKA Agency for the Development of Pharmacy Network, announced at the briefing. During this period, pharmaceutical manufacturers shipped $37 million worth of products abroad and mastered $25 million of investments in 17 projects.
