Pakistan Crisis: Bad condition Pakistan (Pakistan) is now going to be under the shadow of diseases. This fear among people is because the stock of medicines in the country is very less. Many big pharmaceutical companies have warned the government. The owners of the companies have even said that production may stop. It is believed that he has no stock of medicines left for more than 7 days.
Companies wrote a letter to the Pakistani Health Minister
If the stock of medicines in Pakistan runs out, then the patients may yearn for each and every medicine. In this way, the pauperism of Pakistan will now become the cause of a big drug crisis for the country. According to pharmaceutical companies, the cost of their production has increased due to the historical fall in the value of the Pakistani rupee. At the same time, difficulties have increased due to non-availability of material from outside. Pakistan has a huge shortage of dollars for imports from abroad.
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Pakistan’s foreign exchange reserves are around 3 billion dollars, it will not be able to spend even that because it has been deposited as security. There have been reports in the Pakistani media that drug manufacturers have warned the government that it has become ‘completely impossible’ for them to produce and provide stock of medicines for more than the next 7 days. About 10 big pharmaceutical companies have given such warnings to the Ministry of Health. Companies have told the problem by writing a letter to Pakistani Health Minister Abdul Qadir Patel.
Drug manufacturing companies kept warning the government
Qazi Mansoor, former chairman of the Association of Pakistani Pharmaceutical Manufacturers, said that the cost of production of medicines has increased many times due to the huge fall in the rupee and the huge increase in the prices of many goods. Qazi Mansoor said that due to the increase in the prices of APIs and packaging materials required in the manufacture of drugs, it is no longer viable for pharmaceutical companies to sell the drugs at the current price.
Let us tell you that 67 percent decline has been registered in the value of Pakistani rupee. At the same time, now there is a crisis on the pharmaceutical industry. To recover the cost, the companies are now asking the government to increase the prices immediately. If the government increases the prices, then there is a danger of intensifying the protests of the people in the country.
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