Burkina Faso builds first own drug manufacturing plant

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OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AFP) – Burkina Faso’s Prime Minister Albert Ouedraogo Tuesday visited the country’s first own pharmaceuticals manufacturing facility, which will make low-cost generic versions of popular drugs such as paracetamol. Built with private funding on a 1.5-hectare (3.7-acre) site in Komsilga, on the outskirts of the capital, the Propharm plant will ensure the “permanent availability of the medicines most in demand”, officials said. It will begin by producing in the next few months […]