PM: Egypt to provide full support to host African Medicines Agency's HQs

CAIRO - 4 April 2022:  The government is ready to offer all forms of support and facilitation necessary for hosting the headquarters of the African Medicines Agency (AMA) in Egypt, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli said Sunday.

The meeting was attended by Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research and Acting Minister of Health, Tamer Essam, President of the Egyptian Medicines Authority, and Ambassador Suha Gendy, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs for African Organizations and Gatherings.

He invited the AU delegation to pay a field visit to the New Administrative Capital's diplomatic district which can host the agency's HQ, asserting the great importance Egypt pays to the AMA as organizational platform for African pharmaceutical industries and public health improvement in Africa.

Madbouli also reviewed Egypt's drug manufacturing capacities, including technological infrastructure and long-standing expertise.

Egypt has the largest the pharmaceutical city in the Middle East and oldest vaccine center in Africa and the Middle East Africa (VACSERA), Madbouli said.

Egypt is also one of the few manufacturers of COVID vaccines, the prime minister added, noting the Egyptian Drug Authority (EDA) had recently been accredited by the World Health Organization (WHO) for home-made and foreign vaccines.

EDA Chairman Tamer Essam and Assistant Foreign Minister for African Organizations Ambassador Soha el-Gendy attended the meeting.