Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on National Health Services Regulations and Coordination, Dr. Zafar Mirza said that the government was taking steps to control Leishmania disease. He said this while chairing a high level Meeting to review the prevalence and status of Leishmania, a skin disease commonly transmitted from humans through sandfly. The disease [...]
Unani Medicine is a holistic system of treatment which treats whole person including his mental and physical ailments rather than just the symptoms. This system of treatment has a treasure of effective medicines only the quacks have spoiled its image. This was stated yesterday by Hakim Rizwan Hafeez Malik, former president of National Council for [...]
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Medication errors kill 0.5 million people each year in Pakistan
A prestigious and warm farewell in honor of retiring CEO DRAP, Dr. Aslam was organized in the Ministry of NHSRC. It was attended by Senior members of NHSRC. Sharing her views on the occasion, Mrs. Saira Afzal Tarar appreciated Dr. Aslam's selfless and extremely remarkable services with high level of competency, integrity and leadership, as [...]
Pharmaceuticals have demanded government to link drug prices with inflation and allow at least 50 percent of inflation rates to be increased. They also urged Drug Regulatory Authority Pakistan (DRAP) to help domestic pharmaceutical industry to tap big international markets for exports. This was said by former Chairman Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (PPMA) and Chairman [...]
Prof. Dr. Sumbul Shamim, Dean, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences & Principal, Dow College of Pharmacy, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi “If we believe men have any personal rights at all as human beings, they have an absolute right to such a measure of good health as society, and society alone is able to [...]
A reception was hosted in the honor of new federal minister on National Regularization and Services Ferdous Aashiq Awan and Senator Abdul Haseeb by Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (PPMA) inKarachi. A large number of high profile persons from pharmaceutical industry, DRAP head Qazi Abdul Saboor and prominent personalities of the metropolis attended the event. Chief [...]
