A’Ibom To Produce 400 million syringes annually – Gov. Emmanuel

The ongoing syringe factory in Akwa Ibom state is targeted at manufacturing 400 million syringes yearly.

In line with the policy of Governor Udom Emmanuel’s administration to enhance capacity and manpower development, ten graduates in different engineering programmes from the state have been sent on a technology transfer scheme in Europe.

Emmanuel who announced these during this month’s Government House Prayer meeting at the Latter House Chapel of Government House, said the upcoming engineers departed Friday night for training in Vienna, to specialize in the production of several hospital consumables, one of which is the syringe.

He said so far, the biggest syringe factory in Africa which manufactures 95 million syringes a year is in South Africa and revealed that eight production lines for the Akwa Ibom – located…