{"id":171938,"date":"2025-10-01T03:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T03:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/171938\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T03:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T03:56:11","slug":"iran-gains-over-90-self-sufficiency-in-medicine-production-nournews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/171938\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran gains over 90% self-sufficiency in medicine production :: nournews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arash Mahboubi, board member of the Tehran Pharmacists Association and faculty member at Shahid Beheshti University, highlighted Iran\u2019s major progress in the pharmaceutical sector during a live program, noting significant foreign currency savings resulting from this self-sufficiency.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Recalling the past, Mahboubi explained that at the beginning of the Islamic Revolution, Iran lacked a national pharmaceutical industry, with most medicines either imported or produced under foreign licenses.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized that the efforts of young scientists and pharmacy graduates have transformed the sector over the past decades, with over 90%, and in some reports up to 98\u201399%, of medicines now produced domestically.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Mahboubi underlined the importance of this achievement in saving billions in foreign exchange. He said the 10% of medicines which are imported account for 18\u201350% of the sector\u2019s currency costs.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Last year, about $3.5 billion was allocated for medicines and equipment, but without domestic production, this figure could have reached $10\u201315 billion, according to him.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>He also stressed the quality of locally-produced medicines, expressing hope that adherence to international standards under the supervision of the Food and Drug Organization will ensure safe and reliable medicines for the public.<\/p>\n<p>MNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arash Mahboubi, board member of the Tehran Pharmacists Association and faculty member at Shahid Beheshti University, highlighted Iran\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[102,6591,3100,13885,53001,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-171938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-medication","10":"tag-medicine","11":"tag-pharmacists","12":"tag-tehran","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}