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GENERAL
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2019
Disclosure of general [Abstract]  
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NOTE 1:
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a.
General description of the Company and its operations:

MediWound Ltd. (the "Company" or "MediWound"), is a fully integrated biopharmaceutical company focused on developing, manufacturing and commercializing novel products to address unmet needs in the fields of severe burns, chronic and other hard to heal wounds, connective tissue disorders and other indications.

The Company's innovative biopharmaceutical product, NexoBrid, received marketing authorization from the European Medicines Agency ("EMA") as well as the Israeli, Argentinean, South-Korean, Russian and Peruvian Ministries of Health, for removal of dead or damaged tissue, known as eschar, in adults with deep partial and full thickness thermal burns. The Company sells NexoBrid in Europe and in Israel through its commercial organizations and in other territories throughout local distributers.

On May 6, 2019, the Company entered into exclusive license and supply agreements with Vericel Corporation (“Vericel”) to commercialize NexoBrid in North America (see also Note 3d).

The Company second investigational innovative product, EscharEx, is a topical biological drug being developed for debridement of chronic and other hard-to-heal wounds.

The Company's securities are listed for trading on NASDAQ since March 2014.


b.
The Company has two wholly owned subsidiaries: MediWound Germany GmbH, acting as Europe (“EU”) marketing authorization holder and EU sales and marketing arm and MediWound UK Limited, an inactive company. In addition, the Company owns approximately 8% of PolyHeal Ltd., a private life sciences company ("PolyHeal").


c.
The Company awarded two contracts with the U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority ("BARDA"),  for the advancement of the development and manufacturing, as well as the procurement of NexoBrid, as a medical countermeasure as part of BARDA preparedness for mass casualty events (see also Note 3c).