First pharmaceutical factory opens in Syrian opposition area The first pharmaceutical factory in the opposition-controlled areas in northwestern Syria was inaugurated, in a bid to address the lack of medicines and high prices.
An employee of a Syrian pharmaceutical factory shows packs of the hydroxychloroquine drug in the government-controlled city of Homs, Syria, April 28, 2020.
April 8, 2021
ALEPPO, Syria The Sharan subdistrict of Afrin in the northern countryside of Aleppo opened March 30 the first pharmaceutical factory in the areas controlled by the Syrian opposition in northwestern Syria. The project managers seek to cover part of the area s needs of medicines, and they promise to increase production lines and drug varieties in the coming period.