Pharmacy Students Visit YEDCO

Two field visits involving fourth level students were organized by Department of Pharmacy at Faculty of Medical Sciences to the headquarter of YEDCO on 17 and 18 Feb 2020.

Received by a group of the company’s staff members, the students were introduced into the work mechanism of the company’s various sections by Dr. Anwar Hameed (Head of Factories Inspection Dept.) and Dr. Sameer El-Hakeemi (an analyst at the company’s pharmaceutical monitoring lab). They toured the production department, ready production operation chamber, liquid and semi-solid product zone, tablet zone, granulation zone, mixing zone, tablet compression zone, tablet coating zone, powder and capsule preparation zone, in-between monitoring lab, capsule filling, powder grinding and mixing zone, capsule packaging, filling and packaging zone, powder packaging chamber, tablet packaging chamber, packing zone, packaging zone of liquid and semiliquid product, and finally research, development, and quality control labs.

The students were accompanied by Dr. Safya Erruzami (Director of Training and Research, FMS) throughout the visit which falls within the department’s training plan to enrich the students’ professional reallife experience.