Japan, Poonglim Pharmatech’s’K-syringe’ SOS…Park Young-sun “I’m worried”

[이데일리 박지혜 기자] It is reported that Japan, who recently started vaccinating against Corona 19, has been struggling because it was unable to obtain a “squeeze syringe” and requested a purchase from a Korean company.

The Kyodo News Agency reported on the 18th that President Moon Jae-in visited Poonglim Pharmatech in South Korea and that Japan had requested the purchase of about 80 million syringes.

A typical syringe can be inoculated five times with a single vaccine bottle, but if you use a so-called’squeeze syringe’, the amount of vaccine remaining in the syringe after inoculation is only 30% of the existing product, so you can inoculate up to six times.

Japan, which has signed a contract to supply vaccines for 72 million people (144 million doses) on the basis of 6 doses per bottle, will discard up to 12 million people if this syringe cannot be obtained.

President Moon Jae-in is demonstrating a comparison between a general syringe and a minimum residual type syringe at Poonglim Pharmatech, a production facility for corona 19 vaccination and so-called “squeeze syringes” in Gunsan city, Jeollabuk-do on the afternoon of the 18th. news)

In addition to Poonglim Pharmatech’s innovative capacity, the’squeeze syringe’ is a successful model of public-private cooperation created through win-win cooperation and government support from large company Samsung Electronics. It is also a case of support through the “Small and Medium-Sized Win-Win Smart Factory Construction Project” initiated by the Moon Jae-in administration. Park Young-sun, who served as Minister of Small and Medium Venture Business, as well as a candidate for the Mayor of Seoul in the Democratic Party, showed many times the love of Poonglim Pharmatech for squeezing syringe .

Candidate Park shared an article on Japan’s purchase request on Facebook, saying, “I’m honestly worried about Japan’s export issue from Vice President Cho Mi-hee, the daughter of Poonglim Pharmatech’s CEO, Jo Hee-min.”

He also recalled, “President Moon Jae-in finally went to the Gunsan plant of Poonglim Pharmatech yesterday.” After receiving a report of the problem of a vaccine syringe squeezed in December of last year, he recalled, “Please support with all your heart”.

“After that, when I was persuading the CEO of Poonglim Pharmatech, Cho, who hesitated to say’the president’s concern’, made up his mind, saying,’If so, I must do something for the country.’ Thank you everyone.”

Candidate Park said, “I have had a few hurdles after that, but I am deeply grateful to Poonglim Pharmatech CEO Jo Hee-min, daughter Cho Mi-hee, and Poonglim Pharmatech employees who believed in me every time.”

He added, “I am very glad to finish the syringe problem and leave the SME department,” he added.

Poonglim Pharmatech is reported to have received more than 260 million injectors purchase requests from more than 20 countries around the world. Poonglim Pharmatech plans to double its monthly production from 10 million units at present, starting next month.