The Mexican government signed an agreement with India for the production of vaccines and medicines in the Latin American country, as detailed on Tuesday by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE).
“The Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Marcelo Ebrard Casaubon, reported on the agreements with India to produce vaccines and medicines in Mexico,” the Mexican Foreign Ministry reported in a statement.
At the daily press conference from the National Palace, the foreign minister explained: “We are working mainly with various institutions in India (…) for the production of vaccines in Mexico, not only covid-19, but those that have been indicated to us the Secretary of Health. For example, human papilloma and other vaccines.”
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In addition, he pointed out that these negotiations will lay the foundations to strengthen national production for the next ten years: “This is an agreement that will involve investments and agreements from 2022 to 2032. We are thinking of a decade,” he stressed.
The secretary shared that medicines will also be produced “such as insulin, of which we import almost 100% (…), immunotherapies, against cancer, etc.”
“There will be different types of agreements in the coming weeks, we are making progress on it, and production of oncology in our country,” he said.
In that sense, he highlighted “the opening of a Consulate in Mumbai (Bombay), which is where the headquarters of most of the institutions I am referring to are located; there are eight institutions and companies from India”.
“On behalf of Mexico, Birmex, Cofepris and, of course, the Ministry of Health are participating,” Ebrard explained.
Finally, Secretary Ebrard explained that “the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has a table established to support the acquisition of medicines from the Ministry of Health with 18 nations of the world.”
Mexico and India have strengthened their bilateral relations since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, focusing largely on health, trade and cooperation issues.
In an interview from New Delhi to Efe on March 31, Ebrard said he was in India, one of the global pharmaceutical powers, so that, among other things, Mexico would “never” be defenseless again in the face of a pandemic.
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“Mexico is going to link to India without a doubt, we are already doing it. What was the main lesson of the pandemic? ‘They left us alone for eight months, it didn’t matter, we don’t have any vaccines for you.’ That will never happen to us again, ‘never in life’ (Never in life), and that’s why we’re here,” Ebrard assured then. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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