PMA Lahore urges govt. to ensure cheap drugs for poor – DN
Lahore
According to the sources of Daily Notable, The public hospitals of the province are facing severe shortage of the anesthetic drugs due to which most of the necessary surgeries are being postponed. The sky rocketing prices of the medicines and persistent shortage of life drugs in the market created by mafia is playing havoc with the life of the patients but the concerned authorities seem unmoved.
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In a statement issued here on Monday, Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) Lahore office bearers criticizing the situation has demanded the government to react timely to save the precious lives of the hapless patients.
PMA Lahore president Dr Ashraf Nizami denouncing the recent 21 percent increase in the drugs as price adjustment observed that Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) has failed to check the prices of the drugs.
He lamented that irrational hike in the prices of medicines by the pharmaceutical companies by their own has increased the miseries of the poor people who are already depressed due to food inflation. The federal health ministry during the last PTI government allowed 300 to 400 percent increase in the prices of a large number of drugs that had left the numerous patients to die without medicines, he added.
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Dr Shahid Malik informed that drug mafia had totally controlled the public sector hospitals and they are creating artificial shortage of the drugs just to grab the profit.
He said pharmaceutical companies in connivance with officials are getting enormous profit without any check.
They demanded the government to check irregularities of DRAP and drug pricing mechanism in the larger interest of the masses. – PUNA
