MINSK, 3 September (BelTA) - The Healthcare Ministry is interested in localizing the production of Chinese medicines in Belarus, Belarusian Healthcare Minister Dmitry Pinevich said when speaking at an online forum on cooperation in international health care and pharmaceutical innovations, BelTA reports.
“The Healthcare Ministry is interested in deepening the Belarusian-Chinese cooperation in healthcare in furtherance of the memorandum of understanding on cooperation in healthcare signed between the Healthcare Ministry and the National Health Commission of the People's Republic of China on 25 April 2019. In this regard, the Healthcare Ministry confirms its readiness to organize a visit of China's representatives to Belarus, at a time convenient for them, and sign a roadmap to develop the cooperation," Dmitry Pinevich said.
According to him, Belarus is interested in localizing the industrial production of Chinese medicines, including the vaccines against coronavirus. The minister noted that Belarus in general and the Great Stone Industrial Park in particular offer the best legal terms for doing business, in accordance with the presidential decree.
In Belarus the government has always paid great attention to the latest trends in the field of medicine and pharmaceuticals, the minister noted. Therefore traditional Chinese medicine is actively developing in the country. Relevant centers have been established in the regional centers of the country. Moreover, the Healthcare Ministry is taking measures to promote traditional Chinese medicine, which includes the use of reflexology methods, special massage techniques, diagnostic methods, therapeutic gymnastics. These techniques have a wide clinical application in Belarus. Chinese specialists work in some Belarusian centers of traditional Chinese medicine, and Belarusian reflexologists have been trained in China.
Taking this opportunity, Dmitry Pinevich expressed gratitude to China for cooperation in ensuring the sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population of the two states, including through the donation of traditional Chinese medicine drugs to Belarus, which have proven their worth in the prevention and treatment of COVID-19-related pneumonia.
“Cooperation between Belarus and China in the fight against coronavirus can rightly be called exemplary," the minister said. He recalled that by order of President Aleksandr Lukashenko, Belarus was the first in the world to send a plane with humanitarian aid to China. Later, it sent a second plane. Sending humanitarian aid to China has become a good example for other countries, an impetus for action. For its part, China has provided Belarus with a large amount of aid.
Dmitry Pinevich hailed the Chinese experience in the field of diagnosis and treatment of coronavirus infection as timely and extremely important. Specialists of the People's Republic of China openly shared it during numerous video conferences.
In general, the minister noted, the robust development of Belarusian-Chinese political, trade and economic relations is primarily due to the commonality of the principles of domestic and foreign policy, the similarity of views on the most important problems of the global agenda. "Belarus and China maintain an active political dialogue and a friendly climate conductive to the development of pragmatic cooperation in many areas, including healthcare. Given the current situation in the world it is even more important than ever to coordinate cooperation in the development and adoption of strategic response measures," Dmitry Pinevich concluded.
The forum is running in a hybrid format as part of the China International Fair for Trade in Services in Beijing from 2 to 6 September. Its goal is to demonstrate pharmaceutical innovations in China and other countries, to promote exchange and cooperation between China and the countries located along the Belt and Road route and the SCO member countries in the field of the pharmaceutical industry.
