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Uzbekistan intends to provide 80% of the domestic market with domestic medicines in five years, the Podrobno.uz correspondent reports.

This became known yesterday during a meeting on the development of the pharmaceutical industry, which was chaired by Shavkat Mirziyoyev.

“Today, domestic enterprises satisfy only 55 percent of the needs of the domestic market in physical terms. In the next five years, it is planned to increase production in the industry by 3 times and bring the indicator of supplying the domestic market to 80 percent in physical terms. For this, promising projects have been developed for 2022-2026.” – noted in the press service of the president.

Thus, it is planned to implement 104 investment projects for $ 1.25 billion. As a result, it is expected to create capacities for the production of import-substituting products in the amount of $ 376 million and the export of goods for $ 84 million. Most importantly, it is planned to provide jobs for about 9 thousand people.