TEHRAN (FNA)- Head of Iran's Pasteur Drug and Vaccine Production Institute Mostafa Qaneyee announced the country's self-sufficiency in building centrifuge machines to produce different types of vaccines.

"We produced two centrifuges last year, including ultra and tubular centrifuges, in cooperation with the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI)," Qaneyee told reporters in a press conference in Tehran on Tuesday.


Elaborating on Iran's newly-produced zonal centrifuge, he said, "Fortunately, now we have the ability to produce this type of centrifuge in cooperation with the AEOI."


"Fortunately, at present we have become self-sufficient in preparing and building centrifuges to produce vaccines and their purification and don�t have any problem," Qaneyee said.


In February 2015, Iran had unveiled an upgraded generation of centrifuge machines used for producing recombinant medicine at Pasteur Institute in Tehran.


The tubular centrifuge was unveiled in a ceremony in the presence of Health Minister Seyed Hassan Qazizadeh Hashemi, Head the AEOI Ali Akbar Salehi and Vice-President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari.


Addressing the ceremony, Salehi underlined that the new generation of the centrifuges is more advanced than the former machines which were used for producing drugs and it has been equipped with monitoring and control systems.


He also announced Iran's plans to manufacture a newer generation of such centrifuges in the next 8 months with a rotating power of 100,000rounds per minute.


Noting that at present 800,000 patients in Iran use radio medicine in their treatment, Salehi said, "We are making joint efforts with the health ministry to build an all-inclusive special hospital which includes different types of equipment for radiotherapy."


By Fars News Agency