PPM-role-kingdoms-pharmaceutics

Pharma Product Manufacturing Co Ltd (PPM) is a local producer of pharmaceutical products launched in 1996. In its nearly 23 years of operation, the company has played a big role in the Kingdom’s pharmaceutical industry, both socially and economically.

PPM president Doctor Hay Ly Eang was interviewed by The Post’s Cheng Sokhorng. They spoke about the pharmaceutical product experience, the company’s market in the Kingdom as well as how the pharmaceutical industry will contribute to Cambodia’s economic development going forward.

When was PPM established?

We were founded during the Sangkum Reastr Niyum era between 1953-1970. PPM was officially registered in the pharmaceutical market in 1996.

PPM was the first company in Cambodia to be established by a pharmaceutical doctor, Kok Sok Kim. He created a pain-killing medicine, which he called Kinal, which was the first medicine created in the Kingdom following independence from France. Kinal was created four years before the famous French painkiller Doliprane.

We had approximately 27 pharmaceutical manufacturers during the Sangkum Reastr Niyum era, but all were destroyed during the Pol Pot regime.

In 1983, we started to distribute pharmaceutical products again because of medicine shortages. First, we could only supply through imports, but they were limited and not able to be distributed as freely as they are today. We could only contribute as a charity.http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ppm-role-kingdoms-pharmaceutics