Egyptian Drug Authority opens an Egyptian-African medicine center in Uganda

CAIRO – 19 October 2021: The Egyptian Drug Authority (EDA) inaugurated a drug center under the name “Nile Valley Penta,” at the Egyptian African Medical Center in Jinja, Republic of Uganda.

The inauguration was attended by the head of EDA Tamer Essam and a number of official figures participated in the opening.

The Egyptian Company Wadi El Nile Penta (WNP) had established the center as part of a plan to establish a group of pharmacies and medical centers in Africa.

The medical center has started receiving patients since the beginning of last September, and has become a symbol and an Egyptian contribution to Africa.

During the opening, Dr. Tamer Essam stressed the authority's full support for Egyptian companies, and its keenness to enhance ways of Egyptian-African cooperation, and that this comes in accordance with the directives of the political leadership in support of African work.

WNP praised the role played by EDA in facilitating and expediting procedures, providing full support to companies, and keenness on increasing the pharmaceutical sector’s exports to global markets, especially the African market; Because the Egyptian medicine enjoys great confidence and popularity in this promising market.

This comes within the EDA’s activities to support Egyptian drug exports abroad, and in light of EDA’s keenness to enhance Egypt's regional role and support the pharmaceutical sector in sister African countries.