KARACHI: Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) is very much distressed over the shortage of different medicine, especially life-saving drugs, all over Pakistan.
Hon. Secretary General, Pakistan Medical Association (Centre), Dr Abdul Ghafoor Shoro in his statement , said PMA had warned the government that due to closure of LCs for importing raw material for manufacturing medicine and increase in manufacturing cost can be resulted in shortage of medicine.
“Unfortunately our government has done nothing to ease the drug manufacturers, due to this pathetic attitude of the government the problems of the manufacturers continued to rise and now patients and their families are going through a dilemma due to non-availability of their required medicine” he added.
He said one can well imagine the situation from the reports recently published in section of press that production of 1300 drugs has been stopped and this number can reach up to 2500 in coming days as more companies stop production of medicines due to high costs and raw material shortages.
Dr Abdul Ghafoor Shoro said our health delivery system is already in shambles and shortage of medicines will take the situation from bad to worse. If the suitable measures are not taken to control the situation, eventually poor patients will suffer the most.
He demanded that government to take appropriate measures immediately to avoid any ugly situation and save the lives of innocent people of Pakistan.
