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DRAP directive to provinces: Ensure doctors prescribed drugs with generic names

National April 19, 2021 LAHORE: The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) has directed all provincial governments to ensure that doctors prescribe medicines with their generic names in public and private sector in the country. The DRAP issued the order in response to public complaints on PM’s citizens’ portal against pharmaceutical companies and doctors’ collusion to rip off of the people through prescription and sale of costlier medicines under brand name. In a letter to secretaries of health departments of all four provinces, Azad Jammu Kashmir (AJK) and Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) and Commissioner of Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT), DRAP’s Director Pharmacy Services Dr Abdur Rasheed said the citizens had complained through Prime Minister’s Performance Delivery Unit (PMDU) against company-influenced brand-based prescription of medicines by doctors in government and private sectors. This practice adds to the economic burden of the country, and also puts financial l

Drug brand names in prescriptions banned

Drug brand names in prescriptions banned Islamabad April 19, 2021 Islamabad : The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) has stopped medical practitioners from writing brand names of drugs in prescriptions. In a circular, the DRAP said it was unlawful for doctors to write the names of medicine manufacturers in their prescriptions. “It is a common practice that the private as well as government hospitals’ doctors write the ‘brand name’ of a medicine in their prescriptions with expensive price. “The patients become overburdened to purchase expensive medicines of a specific brand,” it said. The DRAP said in future, medical practitioners would write generic formulas of medicines instead of their brand names.

DRAP directive to provinces: Ensure doctor prescribed drug with generic names

National April 19, 2021 LAHORE: The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) has directed all provincial governments to ensure that doctors prescribe medicines with their generic names in public and private sector in the country. The DRAP issued the order in response to public complaints on PM’s citizens’ portal against pharmaceutical companies and doctors’ collusion to rip off of the people through prescription and sale of costlier medicines under brand name. In a letter to secretaries of health departments of all four provinces, Azad Jammu Kashmir (AJK) and Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) and Commissioner of Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT), DRAP’s Director Pharmacy Services Dr Abdur Rasheed said the citizens had complained through Prime Minister’s Performance Delivery Unit (PMDU) against company-influenced brand-based prescription of medicines by doctors in government and private sectors. This practice adds to the economic burden of the country, and also puts financial l

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