Jakarta, 30 April 2017 - PT Kalbe Farma Tbk (Kalbe) today through Kalbe Ethical Customer Care (KECC) holds Kalbe Community Fair (KCF) that is the first in Indonesia alongside the launching of the umbrella brand and new packaging of the Medical Nutrition that has been marketed by Kalbe all these times. The activity is held at Ecovention Ancol, Jakarta, and was attended by approximately 3,000 participants from KECC managed and non-managed communities. Approximately 50 communities attended, such as kidney, cancer, liver, and stroke patients' community from Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang, and Bekasi. A number of activities held at Kalbe Community Fair, such as education and campaigns on health, aerobics, bazaar, and other entertainment activities.

'Kalbe Community Fair 2017 is the first event held by Kalbe, to gather a number of health communities to allow them to share with each other and obtain and find new updated information on health,' said Irawati Setiady, President Director of Kalbe Farma, Tbk. 'In conjunction with Kalbe's mission, 'elevating health for a better life,' we are committed to help the public - especially mothers - to constantly manage their family's health, implementing healthy lifestyle and will constantly present products to support the public's health from infancy and pregnant mothers up to the elderly,' Ira continued. .

'Along with the increase of the public's awareness on the importance of maintaining health, Kalbe is presently focus on the development and innovation activities, among which through nutritional products that can fulfill the various needs of the public,' said Ridwan Ong, Marketing Director of Pharma of PT Kalbe Farma Tbk.

'The series of Kalbe's nutritional products have been present in the market from dozens of years ago, is trusted by health professionals, and used by millions of consumers with excellent results. At this moment, Kalbe is launching a new more modern packaging for the medi-nultrition series of products under the MediKAL Nutrience brand umbrella, which originated from the words Medical Nutrition Science, depicting Kalbe's commitment to constantly innovate to increase the health of the public that is based on science,' Ridwan added.

Kalbe presents the medical nutrition MediKAL Nutrience with a complete product portfolio and adjusted with the patient's conditions, to match the MediKAL Nutrience's tagline of 'Proper Nutrition for Health Companion'.

Some of the MediKAL Nutrience products that are produced by Kalbe are:
1) Entrakid with complete nutritional composition that fulfills the nutritional needs of children.
2) Entramix with complete and balanced nutritional composition that is suitable for elderly.
3) Peptisol that contains high protein, vitamin and minerals that helped recovery process.
4) Nutrican high caloric and protein nutrition for patients with chronic illnesses, specifically cancer.
5) Nephrisol with the composition of protein, vitamin, and minerals that is appropriate for pre-dialysis chronic kidney patients.
6) Nephrisol - D with high protein composition appropriate for the needs of chronic kidney patients on dialysis.
7) Hepatosol with the composition that can fill the needs of a chronic liver patient.
8) Hepatosol Lola with the added nutritional composition that can help fills the nutritional requirements of patients with advanced stage chronic liver disease.

The series of products of MediKAL Nutrience is strengthened with the presence of 2 new products:
1) Peptimune with the nutritional composition that can help in increasing the body's immunity.
2) Peptibren with complete nutritional composition that can help hastens the recovery of patients with motor function and cognitive disturbances.

Kalbe Ethical Customer Care (KECC) at a glance
Kalbe Ethical Customer Care or KECC is a forum dedicated to providing information and education to the public about overall health.
KECC works to increase the awareness and concern of the public for their own health. In addition, the public is also encouraged to always identify the prevention and medication of diseases, especially chronic or degenerative diseases. In every activity, KECC also perform a variety of checks for the participants such as: bone density check, blood sugar, blood pressure, etc.

Kalbe at a glance
PT Kalbe Farma Tbk ('Kalbe') was established in 1966 and is one of the biggest listed pharmaceutical companies in Southeast Asia. Kalbe has four main divisions that handle reliable and varied brand portfolio; prescription medicines (Cefspan, Brainact, Broadced, etc); over-the-counter medication division (Woods, Promag, Mixagrip, Komix, Fatigon, etc); health drinks (Hydro Coco, Extra Joss, Nitros); nutrition division (ChilKid, Prenagen, Diabetasol, etc); and distribution division. Kalbe currently has more than 20 subsidiaries, 9 production facilities with international standard, and employs more than 17,000 employees dispersed across more than 71 branches throughout Indonesia. From 1991, Kalbe is listed at Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX: KLBF).

PT Kalbe Farma Tbk published this content on 03 May 2017 and is solely responsible for the information contained herein.
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