Aster Pharmacy partners with Dr. Reddy’s to market its high-quality medicines in UAE and GCC

  • Date: 16-Feb-2023
  • Source: Zawya
  • Sector:Retail
  • Country:UAE
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Aster Pharmacy partners with Dr. Reddy’s to market its high-quality medicines in UAE and GCC

Dubai - Aster Pharmacy, the retail arm of Aster DM Healthcare & a leading pharmacy chain in the GCC and Dr. Reddy’s laboratories India Ltd, a global pharmaceutical company headquartered in Hyderabad, India, have signed an agreement to make affordable and quality medication easily accessible in the region. Under the agreement, Dr. Reddy’s will manufacture and supply certain medications in the identified therapy areas to Alfa One, the marketing and distribution arm of Aster Pharmacy. The drugs will be distributed all over UAE and GCC by Alfa One. The agreement was signed at Arab Health, a global healthcare exhibition held in Dubai this year.

Commenting on the collaboration, Dr. Azad Moopen, Founder Chairman and Managing Director, Aster DM Healthcare, said, “Aster believes in bringing the best medical care to the people we serve through our healthcare services and products. As medicines play a very important role in the delivery of quality healthcare at an affordable cost, we think that a collaboration with reputed pharmaceutical manufacturers will tremendously help in achieving this. The partnership with renowned Pharma major Dr. Reddy’s Lab from India is a step-forward towards making branded generics of international repute available in the GCC region.”

“At Aster, we serve almost