Name of Work: VitalFlow Pharmaceutical Complex

Location of Work: Luanda Special Economic Zone

Description of what it is and what it aims to achieve: The construction of this pharmaceutical industrial complex involves a partnership between the FSA and Portuguese businessman Nuno Andrade, and aims to reduce Angola’s heavy dependence on imported pharmaceutical products.

The first phase of the project, with a total cost of 80 million euros, is expected to produce medicines for diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis and heart disease. VitalFlow, an Angolan company, will manage the complex, which aims to create 160 jobs. The complex will annually produce 50 million containers for injectable medicines, 17.5 million liters of serum, as well as 4,745 tons of gases such as oxygen and nitrogen for medical and industrial purposes.

Cost of the Work: 80 million euros in the first phase. Growth in 4 phases will allow the production lines to be dedicated and separate.

Contractor: Medika and Gazcorp