Month: April 2024

On April 09-10, 2024, Director for General Affairs A. Satybaldiyev, Head of the Production Unit D. Kaysenov, Leading Equipment Engineer D. Shulenbayev and press secretary A. Kaltayev took part in the 2nd International Congress and Exhibition «Pharma Kazakhstan and Central Asia» in Almaty, organized by Vostoc Capital, which brought together more than 200 representatives of companies.

The Congress and Exhibition «Pharma Kazakhstan» is a unique professional international platform for the leaders of the pharmaceutical industry of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and other countries with the participation of investment project managers, major enterprises, authorities, regulatory and supervisory authorities, licensors of production technologies, developers, manufacturers and suppliers of equipment, engineering and design and construction companies, suppliers of technologies and services.  The event is dedicated to the discussion of the largest investment projects for the construction and modernization of production facilities, as well as opportunities to improve the efficiency of existing pharmaceutical manufacturing enterprises.

Reports at the Congress were made by leading Kazakhstani and foreign companies in the field of pharmaceutical production, as well as representatives of bodies and organizations that control this industry and regulate their activities. In turn, Bekjigit Abit, Director of the Department of International Cooperation, Marketing and Promotion of the QazBioPharm National Holding, presented a report on the group of companies that are part of the Holding, emphasizing the capabilities of the Partnership, and also spoke about the readiness of the Holding’s enterprises for any type of collaboration in the field.

Eleonora Nasanova, Head of Regional Sales for Central Asia at Sartorius, the main supplier of the plant’s production equipment, expressed pride in the existence of a full-cycle immunobiological production in the country and even in Central Asia in accordance with the GMP standard.

In general, participation in the congress was useful, because during the congress negotiations were initiated, during which many pharmaceutical equipment manufacturers and providers expressed a desire to cooperate with the Partnership.

If the main stream of workers employed at the first production complex of the plant, built on direct instructions of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan K.K. Tokayev, are experienced scientists, specialists from a research institute who can conduct their own work, then, to the 2nd complex of the biopharmaceutical plant it is planned to attract young specialists who have just graduated.

To this end, on April 04 this year, at the invitation of the Kazakh National Medical University named after S. D. Asfendiyarov, Deputy Director General for General Affairs Anuar Satybaldiyev, press Secretary Azamat Kaltaev took part in the “Job Fair-2024” organized by KazNMU in Almaty. The fair was opened by the dean of the University’s Pharmaceutical school, Doctor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Professor Zuriyadda Sakipova.

More than 20 organizations took part in the fair, half of which were representatives of the pharmacy business. It is no exaggeration that of the manufacturing organizations where students would like to work in the future, our biopharmaceutical plant, OtarBioPharm LLP, was of the greatest interest.

The location of the biopharmaceutical plant in a rural area stopped only a few students, and many of them expressed the opinion that they did not consider this an obstacle.

On March 29, 2024, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan Tamara Duisenova arrived on a working visit to the village of Gvardeysky in the Kordai district. The working visit, together with the Deputy Prime Minister, was also attended by Adviser to the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Science and Innovation Kunsulu Zakarya, Head of the Department of Topical Security Issues of the Security Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan R. Orazgulov, Deputy Head of the Department of Law Enforcement System of the AP of the Republic of Kazakhstan N. Biekenov, Vice Minister of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan Zh. Burkitbayev, Vice-Minister of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan A. Berdalin, Head of the Department of Control of Security Activities of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan D. Moldakhanov, First Deputy Akim of Zhambyl region N. Kalenderov, General Director of JSC “NH “QazBioPharm” Ye. Abdurayimov, Adviser to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan B. Assylova and others.

During the visit, the delegation got acquainted with the biopharmaceutical plant of OtarBioPharm LLP, its workshop for the production of biological substances under construction. The visit took place on the day of bottling of the avian influenza vaccine and the delegation was able to see the production process.

At the end of the visit, Tamara Duisenova held a meeting and gave appropriate instructions to representatives of the bodies and organizations that took part in the working visit.