On Thursday 09 Aug 2012 12:58:19 am Eugen Leitl wrote: > My question was: are there any regularly bodies which would enforce > production of medicines whihc are in short supply mostly because of > monopoly of brand leaders? ministry of health or any other controlling > authority?
This is a self created problem. The short supply is local to Pakistan. There is no short supply or brand monopoly for a distance of 2000 km, starting 100 km east of Islamabad. If those local controlling bodies do not exist in Pakistan, they must be set up in Pakistan to break monopolies and control prices. Or else allow free import from India. Here is a news report from nation.com > ISLAMABAD – Fearing devastating consequences for the local pharmaceutical > industry when the Indian industry will be allowed to export their products > to Pakistan by the yearend, the local industry has demanded of the > government to allow only the imports of products approved by the > international drug regularity bodies to save the local industry. As > Pakistan has agreed in principle to give India most-favoured nation (MFN) > status and under the agreement the Indian pharmaceutical industry will be > allowed to export their products to Pakistan by the next year, it will > ruin the budding pharmaceutical industry of Pakistan. The Chairman of > Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers’ Association (PPMA) Muhammad Asad > expressed theses fears while talking to a select group of journalists > Wednesday who were also facilitated a visit of Global Group of Companies > to receive a briefing about the operations and improvement of > pharmaceutical industry in the country. shiv
