Nine ‘Made in India’ Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) have been dispatched from Mundra Port for Cuba, as part of India’s humanitarian assistance. The consignment weighs 90 tonnes and the APIs will be used by the Cuban drug manufacturers to produce essential antibiotics to be administered in the form of tablets, capsules, syrups and injections, for treating chronic communicable diseases.
A Ministry of External Affairs official said, “The assistance reaffirms India’s status as the ‘pharmacy of the world’ and underlines our commitment to historic friendship with Cuba.” India has been granting disaster relief assistance to Cuba in the wake of devastation caused by various hurricanes over the years and also during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Earlier New Delhi has supplied rice under short-term credit arrangement during 2022-23 to Cuba. India has also extended five Lines of Credit to the tune of $243 million to the government of Cuba in the agriculture, agro-food, and renewable energy sectors.
