Kimadia

Kimadia — formally the State Company for Importing and Marketing Drugs and Medical Appliances (Arabic: الشركة العامة لاستيراد وتسويق الادوية والمستلزمات الطبية) — is an Iraqi state-owned enterprise founded in 1964 and owned by the Ministry of Health. Its headquarters are in Baghdad. The company is the principal public procurement and distribution channel for medicines, medical preparations, medical supplies and equipment, laboratory materials, spare parts for medical and service equipment, and the chemical inputs used in producing and preparing serums and vaccines. It obtains these goods either by importing them from abroad or by preparing and manufacturing them inside Iraq, and then distributes them to governmental and non-governmental health institutions. Kimadia is fully state-owned and enjoys legal personality together with financial and administrative independence. It is directed by a board of directors chaired by the Director General and composed of eight members. The organisation comprises nineteen departments, four divisions and five warehouses located in the governorates. Its administrative leadership includes the Director General as board chairman and three deputies: a deputy for import affairs, a deputy for storage and distribution affairs, and a deputy for administrative, financial and legal affairs. The company's public-facing activity is dominated by tendering. Its official website publishes notices for medical-supply tenders, medical and service-equipment tenders, laboratory tenders, and serums-and-vaccines tenders, including numbered calls for bids, deadline extensions and cancellations. Bidders are in some cases required to provide a letter of no objection from the General Tax Authority. This tendering role makes Kimadia a central node in Iraq's public health supply chain, standing between international manufacturers and the country's hospitals, clinics and health institutions. Because it is a state procurement body rather than a consumer-facing brand, Kimadia's "market" is effectively the Iraqi public health system, and its operations are shaped by government budgets, import regulations and tender law. Its institutional scope spans drug import, medical-supply import, medical and service equipment import, drug storage and distribution, medical-supply distribution, engineering and maintenance of medical and service equipment, information technology, accreditation, inspection, laboratory equipment, and the Serum and Vaccine Institute.

Kimadia was established in 1964 as an Iraqi public company and is owned by the Ministry of Health. Its formal name is the State Company for Importing and Marketing Drugs and Medical Appliances, abbreviated as Kimadia. From its base in Baghdad, it was built to serve as the state's central instrument for supplying the national health system with medicines and medical goods. The company's mandate was defined broadly: to provide medicines, medical preparations, medical supplies and equipment, laboratory materials, spare parts for medical and service equipment, and the chemical materials used in manufacturing and preparing serums and vaccines — whether for medical or other purposes. It was empowered to fulfil this mandate either by importing these materials from abroad or by preparing and manufacturing them within Iraq, and then to distribute them to governmental and non-governmental health institutions. Over time Kimadia developed an extensive internal structure to manage these flows. It is administered by a board of directors chaired by the Director General and made up of eight members. The Director General is supported by three deputies responsible for import affairs; storage and distribution affairs; and administrative, financial and legal affairs. The organisation operates nineteen departments, four divisions and five warehouses in the governorates, and is fully state-owned, possessing legal personality and financial and administrative independence. Among its nineteen departments are units dedicated to planning and follow-up, legal affairs, administrative affairs, finance, internal control, warehouse accounting and costs, customs clearance, drug information and public relations, drug import, medical-supply import, medical and service equipment import, drug storage and distribution, medical-supply distribution, engineering and maintenance of medical and service equipment, information technology, accreditation, inspection, laboratory equipment, and the Serum and Vaccine Institute. This structure reflects the breadth of the company's role across the pharmaceutical and medical-equipment supply chain. In its contemporary operations, Kimadia functions largely through public tendering. Its official website publishes a continuous stream of tender notices across categories — medical supplies, medical and service equipment, laboratory supplies, and serums and vaccines — including numbered calls, deadline extensions and cancellations. Some tenders require bidding companies to submit a letter of no objection from the General Tax Authority. Through this tendering activity, Kimadia remains the central public buyer and distributor connecting international suppliers to Iraq's hospitals, clinics and other health institutions.

• 2026

  Kimadia's official website publishes ongoing tenders for medical supplies, medical and service equipment, laboratory supplies, and serums and vaccines, including extensions and cancellations.

• 1964

  Kimadia founded as an Iraqi public company owned by the Ministry of Health.

Iraq's state-owned central importer, marketer and distributor of pharmaceuticals, medical supplies, equipment and vaccines for the public health sector.

• Pharmaceuticals and medical preparations

  Medicines and medical preparations imported or produced for distribution to health institutions.

• Medical supplies and appliances

  Medical supplies and appliances procured through public tenders.

• Medical and service equipment

  Medical and service equipment, including engineering and maintenance services.

• Laboratory materials and equipment

  Laboratory materials and equipment supplied to health institutions.

• Serums and vaccines

  Serums and vaccines, supported by the Serum and Vaccine Institute and related chemical inputs.

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2. 2kimadia - Wikidatawikidata.org
3. 3كيماديا - Wikipedia (Arabic)ar.wikipedia.org