Safeguarding health, saving lives

Sinopharm, its arms expand their drug, vaccine and medical services businesses

When some north Indian states were rocked yet again by deaths of hundreds of children due to Japanese encephalitis, or JE, last month, executives of China National Pharmaceutical Group Co, or Sinopharm, the largest healthcare company in China, realized the lifesaving role the company's vaccines could play not just in China but all over the world.

JE is a lethal brain infection common in Asia and the western Pacific that can, however, be prevented using vaccines. As the world's largest JE vaccine provider, Sinopharm accounts for 80 percent of global JE vaccine consumption, they said.