ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Health Dr Zafar Mirza on Saturday said the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) needed large scale reforms, ARY News reported.
Dr Zafar Mirza said this while visiting the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) office in Islamabad.
“We will upgrade DRAP to international standard by improving its mechanism on modern scales,” he said.
He said steps were being taken to strengthen regulation of medicines.
The minister of state for health said work was going on rapidly to make DRAP system automatic.
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On April 7, during a countrywide action against unauthorised and illegal hike in prices of medicine, the DRAP had claimed to have seized stocks of 83 medicines and registered cases against 28 pharmaceutical companies.
According to the regulator’s spokesperson, it took action against firms on overpricing in Lahore, Peshawar and Karachi. Stocks of 226 medicines belonging to 59 pharma companies were confiscated.
In Lahore alone, he had said, pharmaceutical companies’ medicines worth millions of rupees were seized.
He had said the regulator has tightened its noose around firms which have illegally hiked medicine prices, adding these companies will be imposed heavy fines and cases registered against them as per the drug act.
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