Hon. Thomas B Turay encourages Italians to invest in Sierra Leone
In a bid to promote investment opportunities in Sierra Leone to the rest of the world Hon. Thomas B Turay (TBT) has ended a five days working visit to Rome – Italy where he held fruitful discussion with representatives of UNESCO Chair in Biothecnology and Technology Development for Africa. Hon. Thomas B Turay pointing at Sierra Leone on the world map during a meeting with Italian investors
After series of meeting with Prof. Vittorio Colizzi and Dr. Giorgio Mancino and Hon.Thomas B.Turay who represented the Republic of Sierra Leone they spoke about the possibility of launching collaboration projects for development and technology transfer between Italy and Sierra Leone.
They spoke about the possibility to set up a center for research, diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases, particularly HIV, TB and Malaria, co-managed by Italians and Sierra Leoneans Scientists and after a period of star-up, it could gradually be fully managed by local scientific leader so as to keep projects in collaboration.
They also discussed plans for the launching of an industrial initiative in the production of generic drugs, with particular reference to drugs such as vaccines, antibiotics, antiviral, anti-inflammatory and supplements.
In this regard the representatives of the UNESCO Chair spoke about the operation of an academic spin-off company called Technology Development for Africa S.r.l. (TDA), which has the mission to support in terms of logistics, organization and commercial point of view, all this this type of business initiatives, and it operates, obviously as an enterprise but with an institutional approach.
The Technology Development for Africa he said has in recent years developed several projects in different African countries, and it has recently developed a very important project for the African Development Bank (ADB) in this sector. For this reason it was decided to start designing a proposal for a pre-feasibility for the creation of a center for the production of pharmaceutical generics and vaccines in Sierra Leone.
Issues regarding the provision and improvement of access to safe water facility were also discussed with suggestions to develop a project both for the verification of the potability of water and the construction of wells, through the involvement of an Italian company that deals with drilling.
On the areas of the agricultural sector he also discussed the possibility of initiating projects for the dissemination of domestic farming and sustainable agriculture in order to increase the overall production and capacity while maintaining a low impact on the environment. In this regard, the representatives of the UNESCO Chair stressed the possibility of developing collaborative projects through the involvement of veterinary experts and agronomists/botanists to better targeting of interventions.
Hon.Thomas B. Turay (TBT) recent visit to both Switzerland and Italy is likely to attract potential investors into the country in the areas of Health, water, Agriculture and Tourism.
Saidu Bah
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