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JMI Syringes and Medical Devices Ltd (JSMDL) has received a purchase order to export made in Bangladesh Auto Disable (AD) syringes to Dubai for the Covid vaccination programme.
A total of 45 million AD syringes will be exported from July to September this year, the company said in a statement.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has confirmed the purchase order of the syringes to be exported Dubai. Besides, UNICEF also requested the JSMDL for supplying syringes until June 2023. Earlier the JSMDL had exported AD syringes to United States, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Nepal.
AD syringe is a specialised product used for vaccination. The Covid vaccination across the world has been going on using this special type syringe. Only a few numbers of companies in the world have the facilities to produce AD syringes, while the Bangladeshi JSMDL is one of them. The company has had the PQS certification from the World Health Organization since 2012.
Due to the Covid outbreak, the demand for AD syringes rise high across the world.
Meanwhile, the JSMDL has been providing the required AD syringes for Covid vaccination in the country as well as exporting to other countries.
To meet up the demand at home and abroad, the JSMDL has made a new investment of around Tk 5.25 crore to increase the production capacity of 0.5ml AD syringes. Hence the production capacity of the special type products has increased by 33 per cent, it added.
