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IMPCOPS to open second manufacturing facility for Ayurveda medicines at Tadepalli in AP
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Peethaambaran Kunnathoor, Chennai
April 28 , 2022
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As part of its expansion of production facilities and marketing of products in entire south India, the Adayar based multi-state cooperative society, the Indian Medical Practitioners Co-operative Pharmacy and Stores Ltd (Impcops) will open its second drug manufacturing unit at Tadepalli in Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh on April 28.
For the time being, the new production unit will manufacture only Ayurveda drugs as demand is more for ayurvedic medicines in Andhra Pradesh and in Telengana when compared to siddha, a senior officer from Impcops said. However, siddha medicines will be produced if demand for the same increases in future.
This manufacturing unit is the first production facility of the Impcops outside of Tamil Nadu. According to sources, the third one will be set up in Kerala or in Bengaluru in Karnataka very shortly.
In the morning on April 28, the new building will be inaugurated by the health minister of Andhra Pradesh and the release of new medicines will be done by the minister of animal husbandry. The president of the Impcops will preside over the inaugural ceremony. The building was constructed in a three acre land area which is near to Vijayawada.
Briefing Pharmabiz about the program, Dr. R Kannan, president of the Impcops, said after Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Telengana are the states where more Ayush products manufactured by the society are sold. The society hopes that the new production facility will increase the demand and marketing can be expanded to all the districts in both the states. He said currently Impcops’ manufacturing facility in Chennai Adayar is producing 1,050 kinds of Ayurveda, Siddha and Unani medicines. After a short period, the same number of drugs will be manufactured in the new unit established in Tadepalli.
From the time when the operation of the Impcops started in 1944, the society has been marketing its Ayurveda and siddha medicines in entire Andhra Pradesh. In the districts of Warangal, Vishakhapatanam, Tirupathi, Hyderabad and in Vijayawada Impcops has depots. Ayurvedic medicines manufactured from Tedepalli will be stocked in these depots. The new unit will become the production centre of all OTC products and Ayurveda medicines. The Chennai facility will be converted for siddha medicines; it is the plan of the director board.
In the inaugural ceremony, apart from ministers the local members of parliament and state assembly will attend. Senior level officers of the Ayush ministry and the director general of CCRS from Chennai will also participate. Impocops was started by Colonel Dr V Ramamurthi in 1944 in a small production unit at Thiruvanmiyur in Adayar.
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