Iran holds vaccine manufacturing workshop for Republic of Mali

Razi Vaccine & Serum Research Institute in cooperation
with Iran Veterinary Organization (IVO) and Tehran University would hold a
workshop on Vaccine production and quality control for a team of experts from
the Republic of Mali from 24 June to 5 July, 2023 at Razi Institute. The
opening ceremony for this workshop was held with the presence of H. Mr. Ahmedu
Brazi Maiga, Chargé d'affaires of the Mali Embassy in Tehran and officials from
IVO and Ministry of Agriculture –Jahad at Dr. Kaveh Hall of Razi on 24 June,
2023.

At the beginning of the meeting, Dr. Rainak Ghaderi, Head of
International Relations, presented the agenda and Dr. Ali Es-haghi, Director
General of Razi Institute opened the ceremony. Dr. Ali Es-haghi while welcoming
the Malian delegate in Razi Institute talked about the products of Razi
Institute but he put greater emphasis on R&D. According to Dr. Es-haghi,
all of products of Razi Institute during its century-long life are fruits of
indefatigable researchers and scientists. He also talked about some upcoming
biological products in near future.

Dr. Es-haghi also spoke about arranging some schedules for
the presence of Malian delegate in Razi Institute which gives this chance to
the Malian delegate to visit the Razi Institute and get enough training from
Razi Institute trainers and lecturers. It is worth mentioning that Malian
technical team has already started their training courses since two weeks ago.

Mr. Ahmadu Brazi Maiga the Chargé d'affaires of Mali.
appreciated Razi Institute for arranging such a productive meeting, he read the
congratulatory message from the Ambassador. “I would like, on behalf of HE
MAIGA, to ask you to convey to the highest Iranian authorities the most cordial
greetings from their counterparts in Mali. The present ceremony which brings us
together, namely the training of Malian specialist in research on vaccine and
serum, is one of the strong recommendations resulting from the first session of
the Joint Cooperation Commission Mali-Iran, held in Bamako, from August 21 to
23 ,2023 under the high chairmanship of our two Foreign Ministers”.

Dr. Hassan Vishteh the IVO Deputy of Treatment Management
and Diagnosis talked about the process of this mission. According to him, this
mission was agreed upon about one year ago by the Iran’s Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, IVO and the Malian side. Finally, IVO was given the responsibility of
holding this training course. He added, this training is being held triply by
IVO, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Razi Institute.

Dr. Soheila Moradi Bidhendi, Deputy of Research and
Technology of Razi Institute while welcoming the guests including Mr. Maiga,
IVO officials and Razi Institute staff who attended the meeting, expressed that
Razi Institute in parallel with IVO is ready to cooperate with Mali government
regarding sample separation, diagnosis, vaccine production and development. She
introduced Razi Institute as an experienced institute to hold the international
training courses including SRVP with the help of Islamic Development Bank and a
training course on FMD with IVO.

Dr. Adel Haghihi, Head of Reference Laboratories,
Diagnostics, and Applied Studies of IVO, spoke about this training course and
different parts of this course such as GIS, epidemiological control of diseases
and also the visit to the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. He also talked about
some of the methods taught to the Malian trainees, such as the treatment of
avian diseases and FMD. Dr. Najmeh Motamed the Executive Editing Manager of
Razi Institute's Archive Journal briefly introduced the Razi Archive Journal
and talked about the history, aim and scope, publication process, indexing and
abstracting and services of this precious material. She reminded that this
journal is the oldest scientific journal in Iran.

The Malian team introduced themselves, their mission, and
their country capacity regarding the livestock and poultry population and also
vaccine production and importation in their country. Finally, the guests
visited the Museum of Razi Institute and the experts from Mali started the
first session of this workshop in the afternoon at Razi Institute.