The Tripoli based Libyan Ministry of Health announced that it had finally succeeded in implementing a public tender for the import of medicines. The government had failed to launch a tender process for about a decade.

The announcement came during the speech of the Deputy Prime Minister and Acting Minister of Health, Ramadan Abu Janah, during the joint press conference he held with the Director of the Pharmacy Department of the Ministry of Health, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Medical Supply Organisation (MSO), and the Chairman of the Public Tender Committee.