Published on 19 Feb 2026
A Friday evening. A phone call. A life saved.
It was a Friday evening in the Emirates. The working week was over. Businesses had closed their doors. People were heading home for the weekend. Then the phone rang.
A local hospital had a patient in the ICU in a life-threatening situation. They needed Daptomycin — and they needed it now.
Our distribution partner in the UAE, DuPharm, didn't hesitate. Within hours, the medicine was at the hospital. The patient's life was saved.
But here's what made that possible: it wasn't a logistics miracle. It was years of trust.
Xellia and DuPharm have built a partnership grounded in one shared belief — that when lives are on the line, "we'll figure it out" isn't good enough. You need to know, before the call ever comes, that the medicine will be there.
That kind of certainty doesn't come from a supply agreement. It comes from people. From our man on the ground, Tamer Medhat, working side by side with the DuPharm team to make sure Daptomycin is always available locally — not in a warehouse overseas, but right there, ready, when it matters most.
A Friday evening. A phone call. A life saved.
That's what relationships make possible.
