Holy Karbala – INA – Abbas Al-Rahimi
The Pharmaceuticals and Medical Supplies Factory of the Holy Shrine of Hussein, announced today, Monday, the start of supplying the pharmaceutical market with 4 types of medical injections.
The factory director, Muhannad Al-Saadi, told the (INA): “The factory began producing four types of medical preparations that were not present in the Iraqi market as a local industry, and what was available was imported.”
The technical director of the medical syringes factory, Imad Jawad Obaid, explained to the (INA), that “the factory currently produces four types of medical syringes in size (10) mm for veterinary and laboratory use, and 3-5 mm for human use, as well as insulin injections and vaccines.” .
Obaid explained, “The factory’s products are subject to examinations by the Ministry of Health, and they are better than the foreign product in terms of quality, validity, and safety of laboratory testing,” pointing out that “the annual production of medical syringes of various types may reach (260) million syringes.” .
In turn, the factory’s quality control and monitoring officer, Muntaha Hussein, stated, “The factory’s products are subject to various examinations, including physical, chemical, and biological examinations,” indicating, “The physical examination is conducted before and after sterilization, and includes four basic examinations, two examinations specific to the needle in terms of removal.” The penetration and two other tests are specific to the syringe itself: the first is the silicon test and the second is the leak test. As for the chemical tests, they are conducted on the raw materials involved in the industry, and as for the biological tests, they are conducted after the sterilization process to ensure the safety and quality of that process in the biological laboratory.
Hussein continued, “The meals produced from the injections are sent via samples to the Ministry of Health, to conduct a comprehensive examination and obtain its approval so that they can be sold in local markets.”