KABUL (Pajhwok): Afghanistan imported drug worth nearly 768 million afs last year while currently 85 companies produced 550 types of drug in the country, an official said on Saturday.
Dr. Abdul Bari Umar, acting head of the Afghanistan Food and Drug Authority (AFDA), told reporters here that before 2021 90 percent drug brought to the country through smuggling while 10 percent was imported, adding that since the smuggling of 70 percent drug had been prevented while still 30 percent drug arrived in the country through illegal means.
He said Afghanistan’s drug import bill reached nearly one billion dollar while . . .
