Sri Lanka, March 17 -- Morison (formerly known as J.L. Morison Son & Jones (Ceylon) PLC) will in two years time begin to reverse the mega drain of foreign exchange to purchase pharmaceutical drugs, by exporting around five Made in Sri Lanka drugs to the world.

Managing Director, J.L. Morison Son & Jones, now re-branded as Morison, Dinesh Attapattu said that to export any pharmaceutical product it's a global requirement to use the drug in the country of manufacture for three years.

"We have now used five drugs made by us for a year and in two years they will be ready to be exported," he said.

He said that these exports should be to European countries since India, Bangladesh and Pakistan are all self-sufficient in the pharma sector.

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