50 percent of domestic need to be provided with national medicaments by 2014

ATY. November 13. KAZINFORM /Yekaterina Ionova/    50% of the country's need in national medicaments will be satisfied within a long-term prospect till 2014.

President Nursultan Nazarbayev said so when answering the question of Almaty resident Sergey Frolov in the hotline today.

The President noted that this is a topical issue. "From the times of the Soviet Union Kazakhstan is a clear importer of medicaments. 90 percent of all medicaments we import amounted to USD 900 mln, and it is not normal", the Head of the State said.

He noted that the Healthcare Ministry is actively working over the creation of a special logistic center which enters the 30 breakthrough projects of Kazakhstan. "At first, this will lead to an order and decrease in price", - the President noted.

He also informed of the development of the issue on construction of a pharmaceutical factory in Astana and Shymkent.

"Of course, there are such medicaments which will be only purchased. But all of them must pass quality inspection whereas speculation must be eliminated. The State knows about it and controls the issue", N. Nazarbayev stated.