SPMC to issue thyroxin tables

Chaminda Perera

The State Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Corporation (SPMC) will issue thyroxin tablets made by the Corporation in compliance with the international standards to the Government hospitals and the local market in the first week of next month. Thyroxin tablets are given to patients with hypothyroidism.

The Corporation started manufacturing these tablets locally after taking into account the severe shortage of thyroxin tablets in Government hospitals for over a year.Sri Lanka requires two million thyroxin tablets a month and the patients had to purchase substitutes due to a shortage of tablets in the local market. According to a Health Ministry spokesman, the production of thyroxin tablets locally will save huge amounts of foreign exchange.

He said the production capacity of the SPMC has increased recently and a large number of tablets and syrups required by the Government hospitals are produced by the Corporation.