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In 2013, the number of drug users in Balochistan was 280,000. [9] In Pakistan, the total number of drug addicts as per a UN report is 7.6 million, 78% of whom are male, while the remaining 22% are female. [10] The number of these addicts is increasing at the rate of 40,000 per year, making Pakistan one of the most drug affected countries in the ...
DRAP has set the maximum retail prices for 25 life-saving drugs and 25 newly introduced medicines in an effort to make these essential drugs more affordable for the public. [6] [7] A committee was formed to propose strategies to alleviate the scarcity of life-saving medicines and liaise with pharmaceutical manufacturers and importers. [8]
The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan was established in 2012 and is the largest department in the Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination, with its headquarters in Islamabad and regional offices in the provincial capitals of Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar and Quetta. DRAP has been established by the Federal Government ...
Pakistan's suicide rate is below the worldwide average. The 2015 global rate was 9.5 per 100,000 people [31] (in 2008, 11.6). Suicides represent some 0.9% of all deaths. Pakistan's death rate, as given by the World Bank, is 7.28 per 1000 people in 2016 (the lowest rate in the 2006-2018 period). In 2015, the suicide rate in Pakistan was ...
LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) -Pakistan said on Monday it was investigating two local distributors of Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche's Avastin cancer drug after 12 diabetic patients injected with ...
Pages in category "Drugs in Pakistan" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. D. Drug addiction in Pakistan
The Ministry of Narcotics Control (Urdu: وزارتِ انسدادِ منشیات, romanized: vizārat-e-insidād-e-munaśśiyāt) is the Pakistan Government's federal and executive level ministry created on 4 August 2017 by Shahid Khaqan Abbasi (the then Prime Minister of Pakistan).
2010 : "Think health – not drugs" World Anti-Narcotics Day in Pakistan. The magnitude of the drug menace not only undermines global public health, socio-economic synopsis, and international stability, it has also become an issue of National Security for Pakistan. Pakistan itself is a poppy free country, but its population became a victim of ...