On March 17, 2023, an MOU was signed in Shymkent between the South Kazakhstan Medical and Pharmaceutical Cluster and Wonju Medical Device Techno Valley (WMIT)

The Memorandum of Understanding between the Wonju Medical Devices Techno Valley (WMIT) and the South Kazakhstan Pharmaceutical Cluster is the result of a visit to Korea by the delegation of Kazakhstan (SK Pharmacy, Kazakhstan Investment Authority, Nur-Sultan Health Bureau, South Kazakhstan Pharmaceutical Cluster, Ordamed, Dolce Pharm, etc.) in June 2022 for cooperation in the field of biomedical cluster

According to both parties, this will give rise to new opportunities for the development of the production and scientific potential of the region, as well as accumulate all available resources of the pharmaceutical industry to attract investment in the regional pharmaceutical industry and the production of domestic products.

KHIDI also took part in this event, and a tour of the production of the leading Kazakhstani pharmaceutical company "Khimfarm-Santo", local pharmaceutical production, and a discussion of the possibility of setting up the production of domestic medicines at local production facilities in the framework of cooperation with domestic companies.