A session on medicine, chaired by Finance Minister Ishaq Dar. The Finance Minister discussed the prices with officials of drug producers.
The producer and Finance Minister agreed to set the Paracetamol tablet price at Rs2.35 while the price for Paracetamol extra and Paracetamol syrup was raised.
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The two parties mt mid-way on the previous price and the proposed price by the producers and set the price at Rs117.60. While the price for the ‘Extra‘ variant of the tablet was set at Rs2.75.
Earlier in September, the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) offered a significant facility to drug manufacturing companies amid a paracetamol shortage.
Remember that The country faced a severe shortage of the fever tablet and syrups as well as injections when dengue fever wreaked havoc in the country and in the flood-affected areas, people are falling sick due to malaria, typhoid, cholera, diarrhea, and other diseases. Already GSK announced that they are going to stop the production of Panadol, and Paracetamol until Government not raises their prices.
