Comprehensive Cancer Drugs Tender

Scope Construction of first factory to produce a full range of medications and chemicals for the treatment of cancer. The project still under study would be sited at the PTT Wanarom Eco Zone Industries estate in Ban Chang district of Rayong. Construction is planned to begin in 2022 and commercial production in 2027. Plant should halve the countrys expenditure on cancer medicines and chemicals which must be imported and cost the state about 21 billion baht a year.Cancer kills about 80000 people each year in Thailand and the medicines are very expensive. The project was aimed at the local production of all kinds of drugs and chemicals for all types of cancer.Plant would produce drugs for chemotheraphy and the targeted therapy of cancer. PTT would provide engineering and management expertise for the project. The detailed feasibility study would take about 14 months.