India sends 90 tonne of API in aid to Cuba | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: India is extending humanitarian assistance to Cuba in the form of a consignment of approx 90 tonne of nine Made in India Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) which left Mundra port on Sunday.
These APIs will be used by the Cuban drug manufacturers to produce essential antibiotics in the dosage form of tablets, capsules, syrups and injections, needed for treatment of chronic communicable diseases.
“The assistance reaffirms India’s status as the “Pharmacy of the World” and underlines our commitment to historic friendship with Cuba,” said the government.