Eskayef Bangladesh Managing Director AM Faruque met Sri Lankan Health Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva on Sunday during the latter's visit to Dhaka and expressed his vision regarding Eskayef's strong presence in Sri Lanka in the coming days.

De Silva appreciated the quality and packaging standard of Eskayef products and showed interest to import more from Eskayef.

Sri Lankan High Commissioner in Bangladesh V Krishnamoorthy, Head of Chancery of the Lankan high commission VW Aponsu and Marketing Manager of Eskayef Bangladesh Dr Shagufa Anwar were also present at the meeting.

Faruque said, "We have a major growth plan in Sri Lanka in the near future. We have already got registration for 25 products and another 45 products are in registration pipeline."

Due to its multinational heritage and top quality products, Eskayef has already got tremendous response among the physicians in Sri Lanka, according to the release.

In order to facilitate export to western countries and offer newer world-class healthcare products, Eskayef has taken up a new project to establish a state of the art customised pharmaceutical plant at Tongi in Gazipur.

The new facility is being designed to conform to international cGMP (Current Good Manufacturing Practice) with particular emphasis on meeting MHRA standard of the UK in order to facilitate export to the western countries.

Elomatic, one of the leading European pharmaceutical consultants, would provide technical know-how for the facility.