Pakistan Drug Testing and Research Centre (PDTRC) will start functioning by the end of December.
The decision was taken in the first PDTRC management board meeting on Monday presided by Punjab Industrial Estates Development and Management Company (PIEDMC) Chairman SM Tanveer with chief minister’s advisor Khawaja Salman Rafique as chief guest. Rafique assured the board of Punjab government’s full support and lauded PIEDMC’s role in setting up of the PDTRC to provide drug testing facilities of international standard in the province. STAFF REPORT
The PIEDMC chairman said that at the cost of Rs 100 million, this project would not only provide services to more than 166 national and multinational pharmaceutical companies situated at Sundar Industrial Estate but would serve the entire pharmaceutical sector of Punjab and the country. The centre, he added, would materialise the Punjab government’s commitment to effectively check spurious drugs and maintain high standard and transparency in the pharmaceutical sector.
The initiative would improve quality of drugs in the province as well as rest of the country and save time of pharmaceutical sector in examining samples which were earlier sent abroad for testing, he said.
The project is a public-private partnership model and one of the subsidiaries of the PIEDMC.
