Forty cartons of substandard medicines were incinerated at the Sheikh Abu Nasr Farahi Port in Farah Province
Mia Jan Hassanzai, Head of the Food and Drug Department of the Public Health Directorate in Farah, stated that the 40 cartons of imported medicines consisted of Oxytetracycline capsules that had been imported from China to Afghanistan. After laboratory examinations confirmed that the medicines were of poor quality, they were destroyed in the presence of a joint committee.
According to him, the medicines had been confiscated around 20 days earlier, with a total estimated value of 369,000 Afghanis.
He further assured the public that safe medicines and healthy food supplies are being provided to the people, adding that all imported medicines and food products brought in by national traders are released to the market only after undergoing laboratory testing and receiving positive results.
