There are 900 pharmacies in hospitals across the country, all of which are closely monitored by the drug control watchdog, said head of the Food and Drug Administration Rasoul Dinarvand. “All hospital pharmacies are screened for prices, quality, and dispensing medicine regularly,” he said, ISNA reported. According to FDA’s registry available on its website, there are over 1,100 pharmaceutical producers in the country. Iran ranks 7th in the world in the field of recombinant drug production and 10th in overall production of medicines. All the basic materials required to manufacture nanocurcumin, a substance that can help treat cancer, are available in the country now, the FDA head said.
