Damascus hosts training course on vegetable medications

Syrian Minister of Health Dr. Muhammad al-Shatti opened a training course on Wednesday in Damascus on conditions for good manufacture of herbal medication.

The course is organized by the Syrian Health Ministry in collaboration with the World Health Organization and the Scientific Council of Drug Industries at Damascus Hospital.

Al-Shatti gave a speech in which he said that his ministry is taking "persistent steps to make medicine available in quality and quantity at acceptable prices. He added that the number of national pharmaceutical factories has risen from 11 in 1970 to 51 in 1998, and the number of medications they produced rose from 100 types to 2,465.

He added that Syrian-manufactured drugs are in accordance with GMB.