Crotian company Pliva launches its pharma R

Panaji, June 14 (UNI) Pliva, a Crotia-based global pharmaceutical generics company with its establishments in Central and Eastern Europe, has launched its Research and Development (R&D) facility at Corlim in North Goa today.

Governor S C Jamir inaugurated the facility in presence of Chief Minister Pratapsinh Rane and Crotian Ambassador to India Mr Dino Debelijuh and the company's executive director for generics research and development Ms Zdravka Knerzevic.

Speaking on the occasion, the governor urged the industry to manufacture cost-effective drugs affordable to the poor even as the Indian pharmaecutical industry registered 10 per cent annual growth as against 7 per cent global average.

The governor also wished the industry would make use of the rich and varied biodiversity of the westren ghats for R&D programmes even as India had become a global health destination with indigenous systems of medicine like Ayurveda gaining world recognition.

Mr Rane said the government always encouraged non-polluting industries such as pharmaceuticals in line with its policy even as Goa was becoming the pharmaceutical hub in the country.

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