First international standard drug testing laboratory will be made functional in Sundar Industrial Estate during this year as its initial work and building is completed up to 70 per cent. Out of total cost of Rs100 million, government of Punjab has provided Rs50 million to set up this laboratory. This laboratory is being setup at by Punjab Industrial Estates (PIEDMC). This was stated by Chairman Punjab Industrial Estates Development and Management Company (PIEDMC) SM Tanveer in a statement. He said the building of this laboratory will be completed in next twenty weeks as its equipment is reaching Pakistan in April 2012.
After setting up this international standard laboratory, pharmaceutical manufacturers of the country will not need to dispatch drug samples abroad and tests will be carried out in much lesser time and cost, chairman PIEDMC informed. He eulogised the efforts of Chief Minister Punjab Mian Shahbaz Sharif in setting up this laboratory and said it would be a great achievement of the Punjab government as they would provide tested and standardised drugs to the citizens of Punjab. Apart from helping the 160 pharma industrial units being setup in Sundar Industrial Estate, it also would help all the manufactures of pharmaceuticals in the country to get quick results of the tests of their products. He said this laboratory would also help to avoid such incidents which recently took place due to reaction of drugs in the province.
