{"id":41913,"date":"2020-08-26T07:54:06","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T07:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/new-pharmaceutical-company-opens-september\/"},"modified":"2020-08-28T11:44:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T11:44:01","slug":"new-pharmaceutical-company-opens-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/new-pharmaceutical-company-opens-september\/","title":{"rendered":"New pharmaceutical company opens September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The factory, built in the Masoro industrial zone, is expected to start operations in mid-September, where it will be making drugs of various types, with about 80% of its employees being Rwandans.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to providing employment, it will also reduce the country&#8217;s import of pharmaceuticals by between 10% and 20%.<\/p>\n<p>Apex Biotech co-founder Herbeton Madari told the media that they will start with producing 10 types of drugs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are now ready for the work to start in mid-September as everything has been put in place, and machinery installed. We will start with 10 types of drugs and then expand as time goes by.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The factory will have the capacity to produce 800 million packs of pills a year, 200 million capsules and, eight million bottles of syrups.<\/p>\n<p> Rwandan and Bangladeshi investors have shares in the new company.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-36563 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/uru_ruganda_ruzaba_rufite_ubushobozi_bwo_gukora_imiti_itandukanye-95d25.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aex Biotech Medical Center in September will open a pharmaceutical factory in Rwanda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-41913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41913"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=41913"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=41913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}