Tag: Pharmaceutical

Remand of pharmaceutical companies’ owners extended

A judicial magistrate on Friday extended for another five days the physical remand of the owners of three pharmaceutical factories, accused of selling spurious...

‘Rough ‘em up a bit’

A judicial magistrate on Tuesday handed over the owners of three pharmaceutical companies on a three-day physical remand to Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for...

Pharmaceutical industry opposes India’s MFN status

Pharmaceutical industry has rejected the government proposal to grant Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status to India. Domestic pharmaceutical manufacturers have indicated that any preferential...

Medicine prices, inflation restrict pharma industry profits

Asif Misbah, while underlining issues faced by the pharmaceutical industry, said that price regulation has given rise to the false belief that pharmaceutical companies...

Medical negligence – ‘Cold Chain’ for vaccines not being maintained by...

LAHORE: A majority of distributors of national and multinational pharmaceutical companies are supplying medicines to retailers without maintaining the requisite "Cold Chain", affecting the efficacy of vaccines, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Medical experts said that maintaining the Cold Chain means that a vaccine manufactured at 2 degree Celsius should be stored in the same temperature until it reaches the patient for proper efficacy of vaccines. They said certain medicines need to