Day: February 14, 2023

Director General of the Jordan Food and Drug Administration (JFDA) Nizar Mhaidat and the Director General of the Bio Signal Medical Supplies Company Kamel al-Saleh on Tuesday inked an agreement to build an electronic drug leaflet system.

The agreement, Mhaidat indicated, aims to enable citizens and people with disabilities to access drug information directly and easily by building an integrated electronic system to computerize the data on the paper leaflets for the JFDA-registered medicines by using QR CODE technology and DATA MATRIX technology.

He pointed out that the system, which is the first of its kind in the region, includes the launch of several services, such as sending and receiving electronic drug leaflets and obtaining approval by the JFDA, in addition to a smartphone application that works using electronic intelligence technology and augmented reality technologies (XML Reader) to read and browse electronic drug leaflets by health organizations, patients and medical staff.

Other services that the system provides include a text-to-speech reader for all the languages in the drug leaflet to enable the visually impaired, the elderly and the illiterate to read them and provide interactive videos and images to help understand the medical content, he added.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Speaker of the Lower House of Parliament Ahmed Safadi on Tuesday received the head and members of the Saudi-Jordanian Parliamentary Friendship Committee at the Saudi Shura Council.

Jordan, Safadi emphasized, stands by Saudi Arabia and the Arab Gulf states in their efforts to defend their borders and lands and ensure the safety of their citizens, stressing that Jordan’s security is an integral part of the Arab Gulf states’ security.

The challenges the Arab world faces call for cooperation that strengthens pan-Arab solidarity, highlighting the significance of uniting efforts in support of the fundamental causes of the Arab people, with the Palestinian cause at the forefront.

For his part, Chairman of the Saudi-Jordanian Parliamentary Friendship Committee Ibrahim al-Qannas said that the two nations have a long history and strong bond that their leaders are constantly working to strengthen.

The Saudi delegation praised Jordan’s defense of the Palestinian cause under King Abdullah’s leadership and His Majesty’s custodianship of the Muslim and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem.

The Saudi ambassador to Amman, Nayef bin Bandar al-Sudair, said that Jordan plays a significant role in supporting the Palestinian cause through the Hashemite Custodianship of Islamic and Christian holy places, adding that “Jordan is our most important ally in the region and our entry point to support our Palestinian brothers”.

Source: Jordan News Agency

The Jordanian Businessmen Association (JBA) on Tuesday discussed with the Belgian Ambassador Serge Dickschen strengthening trade and investment relations between the two countries, and the role of the business community in those efforts.

According to a JBA statement, President of the association Hamdi Tabbaa highlighted the JBA’s role in promoting investment opportunities available in the most promising economic sectors in the Kingdom and its commitment to enhancing Jordan’s position abroad and its foreign relations at the international level.

He also pointed to investment opportunities available in the tourism, energy and financial sectors, noting that the port city of Aqaba, in particular, has many investment opportunities and logistical services to create a link with the ports of Belgium.

Dickschen, for his part, expressed commitment to cooperating with the JBA to develop his country’s economic relations with Jordan, search for untapped opportunities, and increase trade exchanges and joint investments in accordance with the historical ties that are “based on mutual respect.”

Jordan, he explained, has a prominent regional position and has competitive advantages in terms of the investment environment, especially stability and excellence in entrepreneurship with many success stories of startups that branched out globally.

He underscored the importance of increasing trade and investment exchange, expanding and diversifying the export base, and activating the role of businessmen, cooperation and networking between the private sector institutions in the two countries.

According to the association, the value of trade exchange between the two countries in 2021 amounted to approximately $169 million, of which $35 million were exports to Jordan that included clothing, aluminum, and chemical products.

Source: Jordan News Agency