Under the supervision of the Dean of the College of Pharmacy, Associate Professor Dr. Sarmed H. Kathum Alkhateeb, the Rehabilitation and Employment Unit at the University of Baghdad/College of Pharmacy, with a kind invitation from Al-Kindi Pharmaceutical Company, organized a scientific trip for graduate students at the Pharmaceutics Department to Al-Kindi Pharmaceutical Company in the presence of Assistant Professor Dr. Khalid Kadhem Al-Kinani, the Head of Pharmaceutics Department, along with a group of faculty members. The trip began with an introductory lecture about the different parts of the factory, its products, and how it applies Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP). This was followed by a live and direct inspection of the drug production processes in the factory. The visit included a tour of the factory’s warehouses for raw materials used in the manufacture of medicines and the warehouse for finished products, with an explanation of Good Storage Practice (GSP) to the students. After that, there was a visit to the factory’s production halls and lines, such as the tablets and capsules production line, the syrups and suspensions production line, and the ointments and creams production line (semisolids), with an explanation of how to prepare pharmaceutical preparations at the manufacturing level. The visit also included the factory’s pharmaceutical control laboratories and the research and development department, as well as checking how the laboratory equipment works to perform laboratory tests on the factory’s preparations according to the specified specifications, which are mostly constitutional specifications according to international pharmaceutical codes.The company’s management, represented by the Managing Director, Dr. Udai Al-Maamouri, expressed their desire to cooperate with the college’s researchers to develop some modern formulations of pharmaceutical preparations that are under study by the factory’s management. They also expressed their desire to cooperate with the college to conduct some of the necessary tests using the college’s laboratory equipment in order to achieve the desired goal of supporting the national pharmaceutical industry to achieve high levels of self-sufficiency in the field of medicines as part of supporting the national economy in general.At the end of the trip, the students expressed their great satisfaction with what they saw of the details related to the pharmaceutical industry in a way that blended the research reality with the applied reality, leading to more applied research in the service of the educational and economic processes in the country.
