Melik-Bagdásarov, who received the shipment of insulin, recalled that Russia and Venezuela agreed to produce medicines in our country. He stressed that health cooperation between the two countries is very important for the health of citizens
The Russian ambassador in Venezuela, Seguéi Melik-Bagdásarov, received on Thursday, October 20, a shipment of 1.2 million doses of insulin at the Simón Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetía, this being the second batch of medicines of this type that arrives to the country due to the Russia-Venezuela agreement.
Melik-Bagdásarov stated that along with the insulin doses, more than 5,000 new syringes arrived for the treatment. He stressed that health cooperation between the two countries is very important for the health of citizens.
The Russian ambassador recalled that in 2021 it was agreed to carry out insulin production in Venezuelan territory with the company Expromed Bio. He said that with the sanctions “we are going to put up with this production and raise the bilateral relationship to new heights.”
We consolidated the dynamics of cooperation in health matters with the delivery of a new batch of 1.2 million Russian insulins✊We continued with the technological project for the location of its production in Vzla. Because ????? they have what! pic.twitter.com/HXPLeetpTG
– EMB₽V_Sergio (@EmbSergio) October 20, 2022
This is the second such shipment to enter the country in 2022, with the next shipment expected to take place in the first quarter of 2023.
On October 11, 2022, Foreign Minister Carlos Faría held a meeting in Moscow with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, in which they reviewed the progress of bilateral projects, while committing to raising the strategic level of relations diplomatic relations between the two nations.
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The two countries have prepared several agreements that they will sign between December 13 and 14, in Caracas, during a meeting of the high-level intergovernmental commission (CIAN) that makes up both nations, the agency recalled. EFE.
in 2019, Russia began the exchange with Venezuela by delivering a first batch of insulin made up of some 200,000 units, to serve patients suffering from diabetes. This delivery was part of a total shipment of 5,000,000 drugs until the end of 2020 that would be made monthly.
“Shipments will be made monthly and in the future it is planned to expand the range of drugs,” said the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, María Zajárova, and explained that these medicines, which will benefit 400,000 patients, are part of the agreements established between Venezuela and Russia signed in June in Saint Petersburg.
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