Tag: Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP)

Pharma industry announces to slash prices of 395 essential drugs

KARACHI: Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association (PPMA) on Wednesday announced to decrease the prices of 395 essential medicines whose prices had been reduced by the...

Drug prices increase by 15 per cent

KARACHI: The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) on Friday announced a price hike of 9-15 per cent across the country, a notification stated. According...

SC suspends drug price hike till new CEO appointed at DRAP

  ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) to cease increasing drug prices before a regular chief executive officer (CEO)...

Govt launches WHO backed national essential medicine list

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for National Health Services, Regulation, and Coordination (NHSR&C) Aamer Mehmood Kiani said that the National Essential Medicine List 2018 will be...

Huge difference between manufacturing, selling costs of medicine irks Senate body

The Senate Standing Committee on National Health Services was irked due to the difference between the manufacturing costs of medicines and subsequently their retail...

61 booked by DRAP for making, selling unregistered, spurious drugs

ISLAMABAD: Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) National Task Force has booked 61 medical stores and pharmaceutical companies in cases pertaining to the selling and manufacturing...

DRAP to ensure availability of life saving drugs in market

ISLAMABAD:  The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) was directed by National Health Services (NHS) Caretaker Federal Minister Mohammad Yousuf Shaikh to ensure that life-saving drugs...

DRAP approves registration of 127 medicines

ISLAMABAD: The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) recently registered 127 medicines, deferred 34 cases and rejected five applications during the 35th meeting of Enlistment...

Irregularities in Drap, says Transparency International

ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) has been swept over by panic after irregularities in the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (Drap) were...

Conflicting rulings concern Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: "Conflicting" judgements by various high courts regarding medicine prices and interim injunctive orders by manufacturers and importers have become a cause of concern for the...

Medicine prices slashed by DRAP: report

ISLAMABAD: The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) has decreased medicine prices by up to 41 percent, reported Dawn on Friday. The change in prices...