Newly Invented Family Planning Pills for Men to be Produced Soon

Surabaya (Antara Bali) - Newly invented family planning pills for men from plant, locally known as Gandarusa, will be mass produced in Surabaya in the middle of next year, a researcher from a Surabaya university said.

Research has been carried out and completed and the extract from the plant had been handed over by state Airlangga University (Unair) to the state pharmaceutical company Indofarma , Dr Bambang Prajogo, the researcher from the university.

 "That means the pills will be ready to go to the market soon," Dr Bambang told Antara news agency here on Sunday.

Unair's Deputy Rector Prof. Achmad Syahrani already handed over the purified ethanol extract of Gandarusa to the president of PT Indofarma Elfiano Rizaldi in a ceremony here on Saturday.

On the sidelines of the 50th ceremony of reunion of alumnus of the pharmaceutical faculty of the university attended by leaders of state pharmaceutical companies including PT Indofarma and PT Kimia Farma, and relater government agencies, Dr Bambang said the handover of the extract marked the start of further process at the hands of industrialists such as in securing the production and distribution licenses.

The family planning pills would be a kind of herbal medicine and it has been tested on human being, he said. "We have carried out research since 1985 and it was finished in 2013 or in 28 years," he said. (*/M038)