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‘Afghanistan’s annual medicines import bill reaches $1bn’

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KABUL (Pajhwok): As a result of medicines low quality highest quantity was consumed in the country and the annual import bill reached $1 billion, an official said on Tuesday.

Dr. Abdul Bari Umar, head of the National Drug and Food Authority, during the inauguration of medicine and medical equipment exhibition said that it was a historic exhibition in the history.

Expressing concerns regarding the high use of medicine in the country, he said annually worth $1billion medicines were imported in the country.

He said several serum factories were operating in different parts of the country and have the ability to . . .

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