Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, managing director and co-founder of Biocon (Samyukta Lakshmi/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Malaysian gov­ern­ment en­lists na­tive Bio­con for in­sulin sup­ply deal

Malaysia’s largest bio­phar­ma has land­ed a three-year con­tract with the gov­ern­ment to man­u­fac­ture and sup­ply the coun­try with in­sulin.

Bio­con Bi­o­log­ics will make and sup­ply In­sug­en to the Min­istry of Health. The con­tract is val­ued at $90 mil­lion, Bio­con said in a press re­lease. With the deal, In­sug­en will be avail­able to pa­tients at the Min­istry of Health hos­pi­tals, dis­trict health of­fices and health clin­ics.

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