Algeria is heading for Africa to develop its non-hydrocarbon exports, particularly medicines.
A first exhibition of the Algerian pharmaceutical industry “El Djazair Healthcare” will be held from May 17 to 19 in the Senegalese capital.
The “great meeting of Dakar” will be the “starting point of Algerian-Senegalese partnership and win-win business relations”, explained this Saturday by the Ministry of the Pharmaceutical Industry in a press release.
Algeria is not only targeting Senegal but the entire sub-region. Lotfi Benbahmed’s department explains that Dakar will also be the point of “Algeria’s industrial and commercial deployment towards other African countries in the region for the development of an African pharmaceutical industry which contributes to economic growth and the strengthening continental health sovereignty.
Contracts will be signed
To prepare for this show, Lotfi Benbahmed brought together representatives of the 70 public and private pharmaceutical companies that will take part in “El Djazair Healthcare” in Dakar on Thursday, April 21.
The opportunity to explain all the measures taken by Algeria to “support” and “encourage” Algerian pharmaceutical operators in their export efforts, particularly towards African markets.
In the process, the Ministry of Pharmaceutical Industry recalls the decision of the President of the Republic Abdelmadjid Tebboune to open the Algiers-Dakar airline and the launch the maritime line between Algeria and Senegal. It also recalls the establishment of a regulatory framework to encourage exports: export establishment status which did not exist before in Algeria, export registration decision, etc.
For this first exhibition of the Algerian drug industry in sub-Saharan Africa, with the organization of this exhibition, Algeria is already thinking big.
This exhibition will allow Algerian pharmaceutical operators to exhibit “their ranges of products and their technicalities to their Senegalese counterparts but also to local and sub-regional purchasing centers (Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Burkina-Faso and member countries of the Association network of essential medicines purchasing centers ACAME)”.
The Ministry of Pharmaceutical Industry has already announced that several memoranda, agreements, and contracts will be signed between the various parties present at this show.
In Dakar, Algerian pharmaceutical operators will meet their “African counterparts, in the presence of regional associations and professionals as well as various banking institutions and several carriers specializing in freight and logistics”.
