Vimal Patel

Mr. Vimal Patel serves as a Managing Director of Cosmos Limited, a leading pharmaceutical manufacturing company in Kenya, producing branded generic pharmaceutical products for both Human and Veterinary use. He obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmacy –B Pharm (Hons) from Brighton University in London. He attended the Accelerated Development Program at London Business School. In the Early years, Kenya was importing all medicines that were consumed here, it was important that Kenya started making essential pharmaceuticals locally in order to make them readily available and affordable. During his leadership in Cosmos for over 30 years he was able to locally manufacture essential, quality and affordable medicines used to fight major endemic diseases such as malaria, Tuberculosis and AIDS. Cosmos is now making more complex medicines used for treatment of hypertension and diabetes and exporting to 13 countries in Africa. Currently he is also the Chair of Federation of Kenya Pharmaceutical Manufacturers (FKPM) and vice chair Kenya Association of Manufacturers Pharma Sector. Through his Chairmanship of FKPM he has been driving policies through Ministry of Health other government bodies and external bodies such as GIZ, IFC, WHO in making Kenya self-sufficient in production of quality affordable pharmaceutical products and creating jobs.In partnership with Clinton Foundation, Cosmos was able to introduce Oral Rehydration Salts with Zinc to combat diarrhea in young children. This led to a significant drop in child mortality and a very drastic drop in the cost of treatment, less than 1 US. He continues to develop and execute the company’s growth strategy.

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