DRAP in action, seizing unregistered drugs

DRAP in action, seizing unregistered drugs

ISLAMABAD: Drugs Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) recently began a crackdown on spurious and unregistered drugs.

The Federal and Provincial Drug Inspector’s team conducted a raid on the General Market of Medicine opposite NICVD Hospital in Karachi. They seized and sealed a large number of stocks of unregistered drugs.

The health ministry said action would be taken against the sellers of these unregistered drugs per the law.

Asim Rauf, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), DRAP, said the authority was committed to ensuring the supply of quality medicines and would take effective and thorough action on receiving complaints.