Government Has Signed An Agreement With Foreign Drug Companies To Handover the Manufacturing Of Some Drugs Currently Produced Locally

The Government has signed an agreement with few multinational foreign drug companies to handover the production of vital medicinal drugs that currently manufactured by State Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Corporation(SPMC) according to the All Ceylon Health Services Union.

Manufacturing of Medicinal Drugs including Paracetamol,Metformin and Losartan that manufactured by state pharmaceutical corporation locally are to be handover to the the said multi national companies Health Services Union has claimed."The medicinal drugs that manufactured by SPMC are in good quality and can even exported to the foreign market and earn foreign exchange.So without improving the manufacturing of these drugs locally and trying to handover the manufacturing of them
to foreign companies  is an action to dismantle state pharmaceutical corporation under cover of Professor Senake Bibile's Medicinal Drug Policy" the president of All Ceylon Health Services Union Samantha Koralearachchi has said.