Afghanistan exported serum for the first time

For the first time, nearly two million serum maps worth 580 thousand dollars were exported from Afghanistan to Iraq.

Acting Director of the National Drug and Food Administration, Acting Minister of Information and Culture and Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade emphasized the country’s self-sufficiency in various sectors in a program that was held to start the export of serum.

These officials asked businessmen to invest in various sectors, especially health in the country.

Abdolbari Omar, head of the National Drug and Food Administration, emphasized that 80% of drug smuggling into the country has been prevented, saying: “We will not despair, let’s join hands and cooperate and use these golden opportunities.”

Khairullah Khairkhah, Acting Minister of Information and Culture, said in this program: “Even though there are restrictions on the banking system and because of advertisements, everyone understands what is happening today; But again, Alhamdulillah, we are getting ahead of our neighbors day by day.”

Qadratullah Jamal, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade, who was another speaker in this program, said: “In two or two and a half years, there has been so much progress that Afghanistan has become self-sufficient in production.”

At the same time, Nisar Ahmad Taraki, the head of the serum exporting company, has asked the Islamic Emirate to cooperate with them in the growth of trade and the creation of more trade areas.

Mr. Taraki added: “I request the officials and elders of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan to make this field more favorable than before.”

In this program, Deputy Minister of Public Health, Abdulwali Haqqani, called the role of the pharmaceutical sector in the country’s economy valuable and called for the use of domestic products.

Mr. Haqqani added: “The Islamic Emirate is committed to the development of the domestic industry, and it is the order of His Highness the Amir al-Mu’minin who ordered all the departments of the Emirate to use domestic products.”

Based on the statistics of the National Food and Drug Administration, one billion dollars goes abroad every year from Afghanistan to buy medicine.