Container with insulin from the Russian pharmaceutical company Geropharm unloaded at the SimĂłn BolĂvar International Airport of Venezuela, September 24, 2025. Photo: Instagram/@minsalud_ve.
On Wednesday, Venezuela received a shipment of 1,600,251 units of insulin from the Russian Federation. The shipment, which arrived at the SimĂłn BolĂvar International Airport in La Guaira state, also included 64,994 pen-injector devices and equipment that will strengthen the Venezuelan Public Health System and ensure the treatment of patients with diabetes mellitus.
Venezuela’s minister of health, Magaly GutiĂ©rrez, highlighted that the arrival of this shipment is the result of the partnership between the two countries, “who are together forging a path of cooperation and resilience in the face of adversity.”
The minister stated that the shipment is part of the Supply of Essential Medicines with Reciprocal Investment Obligations signed by the Ministry of Health of Venezuela, the Socialist Company for the Production of Biological Medicines (Espromed Bio), the Venezuelan Foreign Trade Corporation (Corpovex), the International Center for Productive Research (CIIP), and the Russian company Geropharm—which has a technology transfer agreement with Venezuela.
The agreement ensures the immediate distribution of insulin and, at the same time, drives the project for national production of the medication in Venezuela, strengthening the country’s healthcare response capacity.
This shipment follows the shipment that arrived on August 9, which contained 226,000 doses of yellow fever vaccines, also from Russia. Health Minister GutiĂ©rrez noted at the time that this batch was destined for Venezuela’s Expanded Program on Immunization (PAI), demonstrating that public health is a government priority despite scarcities imposed by the US blockade.
The medical collaboration is part of the Strategic Trade Alliance signed between Venezuela and Russia in 2019 at the St. Petersburg International Forum. In May, Venezuela also received 2,407,000 polio and hepatitis B vaccines from Iran, and in April, 30,000 doses of polio vaccines from Cuba.
That same month, Nicaragua supplied 60,000 doses of polio and tuberculosis vaccines in collaboration with the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA-TCP).
(Telesur)
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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