Doctor of Medical Sciences, director of one of the capital's eyes clinics Manuk Manukyan has been unsuccessfully trying for 20 years to find funds for clinical trials of the innovative drug - eye drops - developed by him, he told reporters on Wednesday.

The drug based on ethanolamine is intended for the treatment of acid and alkali eye burns. Relevant studies were conducted in Soviet times for 10 years. According to him, successful experiments were conducted on chinchilla rabbits, which proved the effectiveness of the drug. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Manukyan did not manage to find funds for conducting clinical trials.

As noted, the clinical phase of research requires about $ 25-30 thousand. Manukyan assures that all expenses will quickly pay for themselves, especially given the minimum costs for raw materials: for $ 10 per liter of the drug, the profits from sales of metered vials will be $ 2 thousand.

Manukyan noted that the medicine can be used in wartime when the likelihood of acid and alkali eye burns increases.