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, ...

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 ...

Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan has launched countrywide crackdown against the pharma companies involved in illegal and unauthorized increase in prices of medicines.  According to a spokesperson of the Drug Regulatory Authority, the action has been initiated after Minister for Health ...

ISLAMABAD:The government has introduced a transparent policy for increase in prices of medicines. Spokesman of Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) in a statement today (Thursday) said that Authority had notified a Drug Pricing Policy in 2015 and it provides a transparent mechanism for ...

ISLANABAD: (APP) Parliamentary Secretary for National Health Services Dr Darshan Thursday informed the National Assembly that around 80 to 90 percent life-saving drugs are locally produced in the country.During the question-hour, he said there are about 34 companies which are exporting their ...