MINSK, 15 August (BelTA) – It is necessary to vigorously develop biopharmaceutics in the country. Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko made the statement at a meeting held on 15 August to discuss the matter, BelTA has learned.
The head of state noted that in any country two things are vital for people’s lives: food and healthcare. With its well-developed agriculture, Belarus is good at providing food. The second factor is as significant. Particularly taking into account how the world develops at present, with people often travelling and spreading various kinds of diseases with them. This is why pharmaceutics, the treatment of people will remain topical, with the demand for them getting higher all the time. Their development as individual industries has exceedingly great prospects in Belarus, the president is convinced. As a substantial advantage they do not require the availability of significant natural resources, mineral deposits. They need first and foremost qualified personnel and technologies. Belarus has both.
“One of the areas we can excel at is medications and veterinary drugs. We need brains. We need to invest the technologies that are already known and progress further,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said. “This is why as we determine areas of our development for the next five-year term, I think we should look for industries and areas that are less dependent on resources like oil, natural gas, iron, metal, and so on.”
This is why the meeting focused on the strategic development of this industry’s largest enterprise – OAO BelVitunipharm. At present the company makes 150 veterinary drugs, including 26 biological products.
“Belarus walks along the path of import substitution towards technological sovereignty as they like to call it these days. It is impossible to achieve that without large manufacturing facilities of our own. Without centers with proprietary scientific labs and R&D products where people think 10 and 20 years forward. Vitebsk Oblast has all the prerequisites for setting up a powerful industrial group in the field of biopharmaceutics. But is Vitebsk Oblast the only suitable area? We should take a broader view on the scale of the country. In other words, whether this industrial group can work for the benefit of agriculture and for the benefit of healthcare. BelVitunipharm is supposed to become the technological core,” the head of state explained the importance of the meeting’s topic.
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