Russia and Vietnam have gone on to officially formalize a major collaboration in healthcare, with Russia going ahead with the biopharma technology transfer to Vietnam.
It is well to be noted that this agreement was officially concluded at a signing ceremony that was witnessed by Mikhail Murashko, the Russian Minister of Health, and Dao Hong Lan, the Vietnamese Minister of Health. The deal took place between the VNVC Vaccine and Biological Products Plant and the Medsintez Pharmaceutical Company from Russia.
This event goes on to represent a prominent milestone when it comes to bilateral healthcare cooperation and syncs with the strategic goals in terms of scientific and technological advancement and public health innovation of Vietnam. The initiative happens to support its Pharmaceutical Development Strategy to 2030, with a vision to 2045, and happens to be in perfect tandem with Politburo Resolutions No. 57 and 72.
Within the terms of the agreement, Medsintez will offer advanced biopharma technology transfer for the VNVC plant. This collaboration also includes partnership when it comes to clinical trials, research and development, and the distribution of high-quality pharmaceutical products in Vietnam and also all across the ASEAN region.
When we talk of the products that are anticipated to be manufactured in Vietnam, they are the recombinant albumin, recombinant insulin, single-use as well as reusable insulin pens, the anticoagulant heparin so as to prevent and treat the thrombotic complications leading to stroke, diabetes medications (liraglutide, semaglutide), myocardial infarction, or pulmonary embolism, the antiviral drug triazavirin, as well as the follicle-stimulating hormone, which is often used for infertility treatment.
Specifically, both parties have gone on to agree on jointly conducting clinical research when it comes to Triazavirin as far as the treatment of dengue fever is concerned, which happens to be a disease that at present has no specific treatment and leads to hundreds of thousands of cases as well as dozens of deaths every year in Vietnam.
The Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko, speaking at the event, went on to emphasize that cooperation between Vietnam and Russia would go ahead and bring mutual advantages with the goal of safeguarding the public health and, at the same time, elevating the quality of healthcare systems.
Minister Dao Hong Lan, on behalf of the Ministry of Health of Vietnam, went ahead and expressed his appreciation for the Russian government as well as the Ministry of Health for decades of support when it came to workforce training, vaccine supply, technology transfer as well as medical equipment. She went on to affirm a collaboration between research institutes and pharmaceutical enterprises as well as the high-tech medical centers of both countries and the fact that it is going to create some major development opportunities, especially in the important areas like cancer treatment, biomedical innovation as well as drug and vaccine production.
