State of the Art Drug Testing Lab launched

By Hashim Hasan


Karachi: Prime Health (Pvt) Ltd., is recently launched in Karachi.  The facility is based in Islamabad and the facility is recognized by DRAP.


Prime health is an integrated solution providing full compliance with  GMP, and 21 CFR part 11 guidelines, complies with International Standards and Quality Guidelines of  ISO/IEC 17025, ISO 9001 (Quality Management System), ISO 14001 (Environmental Management), OHSAS 18001 (Occupational Health & Safety), ICH and WHO the against which the competence of testing and calibration laboratories is assessed. Pakistan’s 1st Laboratory to offer Customer Specific Contract Services.


It is a Leading Pharmaceutical Quality Control Laboratory in Pakistan with an aim to become an international player by providing high quality, cost effective, safe and innovative solutions in monitoring and analysis of medicines quality with the commitment to transform this world into a healthy planet. The Lab’s Quality and Compliance roles use integrated systems to drive product quality and maximize efficiency of quality processes.


The Chief Operating Officer Dr Ambreen Amir in her presentation said that the lab is set-up to discover, develop testing methods and successfully analyze the Pharmaceutical products for their valued customers to prevent, alleviate and cure diseases in Pakistan and internationally. They will provide utmost customer satisfaction and achieve leadership in analyzing quality of Products and services across the country, through excellence.


Dr Iftikhar Jafri spoke about the scope and services offered by the lab. Quality Control Testing, Method Development, Validation, comparative dissolution and Stability Storage facility and Testing of pharmaceutical raw materials and finished products at state of the art GMP complaint facility. Prime Health is providing independent, contract analytical services to the global pharmaceutical and related industries, he concluded.


Sultan Ghani spoke in detail about the global perspective of outsourcing laboratory services. He emphasized the need of having such state of the art facility in Pakistan which will complement the pharma industry.


The company was recently launched in Karachi where a large number of industry giants attended the highly integrated event. The event was followed by dinner.