Health Minister Akmaral Alnazarova said which countries domestic pharmaceutical products are sold to, Sputnik Kazakhstan correspondent reports. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing Sputnik Kazakhstan.
According to the minister, last year the pharmaceutical market volume reached 1 trillion 285 billion tenge. Meanwhile, the volume of Kazakh production increased by 37 percent.
This year, over 8 months, products worth 157 billion tenge were produced. This is 30 percent more compared to the same period last year.
«Over the past two years, investment in the industry increased 3.3 times, and exports 1.9 times. The main countries to which exports are sent include Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, and Moldova», — Alnazarova said at today's government meeting.
According to the minister, in September 2026 the first batch of a drug for treating diabetes was sent to Bulgaria.
The minister also stated that prices could be reduced by up to 90 percent.