Karachi: During a crackdown against unregistered and counterfeit medicines in the southern district, medical stores were raided, and multiple fines were imposed. According to details, an operation was carried out against the hoarding of long-term, life-saving drugs in medical stores. In these ...

Recent reports highlighting the scarcity of key medicines and non-essential drugs within the Pakistani market have raised significant concerns regarding the well-being of the population. This shortage not only results in inflated medication prices due to limited supply but also poses a substantial ...

During the past 6 months, there has been an increase of up to 70% in the prices of medicines in the country. According to private TV channels, insulin for diabetes patients has disappeared from the market in Karachi, and other life-saving medicines, including blood pressure medication, are being ...

The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet has approved an increase in the maximum retail price (MRP) of paracetamol products. Finance Minister Ishaq Dar presided over the meeting of the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet on Friday. ALSO READ The ECC considered a ...

The decision will be made today whether the prices of medicines will increase or not. As per the official sources, an important meeting of Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (PPMA) and the Ministry of Health will be held in Karachi at 3pm today. The Ministry of Health is expected ...

ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Health and Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) has moved a summary seeking an increase in retail prices of medicines by 350 percent following the pharma industry’s threat to close down factories in a week, ARY News reported on Wednesday. According to details, ...

The local pharmaceutical industry has warned that the availability of medicines beyond the next seven days period is not possible as the industry has become completely unsustainable to manufacture medicines. According to a letter from the pharmaceutical industry to the Ministry of Health ...

Giving to the government week’s ultimatum, Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Association (PPMA) on Monday warned that if it (the government) did not increase the prices of medicines within one week keeping in view unprecedented inflation, all drugs’ manufacturing units would be shut ...

*KARACHI: Stocks of life-saving and essential drugs have vanished from the medicine markets in the country as the pharmaceutical sector has demanded an increase in the prices following a hike in manufacturing costs owing to an increase in the rate of dollar, fuel prices, and other factors. ...

The pharmaceutical companies have increased the prices of medicines for diabetes, eye disorders, blood pressure and other diseases by 20 per cent within a week. The medicines’ distributors have said that the price of insulin has increased from Rs1049 to Rs1,142 and that of eye drops from Rs875 ...