Summary Shutter down observed by medical stores, pharmaceutical industry on Punjab Chemist Council's call
LAHORE: (Dunya News) – Shutter down was observed in various cities of Punjab by medical stores and pharmaceutical industry against the amendments made in the Drug Act 1976 upon Punjab Chemist Council’s call. Chemist Council says that the amendments are brutal and strike for indefinite period of time will be observed after Eid-ul-Azha if the amendments are not withdrawn, reported Dunya News.
According to details, people belonging to pharmaceutical industry and medical stores held a protest in various cities of Punjab including Lahore against the amendments in Drug Act 1976. A protest rally was led outside Lohari Medicine Wholesale Market. Chemist council leaders said that the license-holders doing genuine medicine business are being harassed while the manufacturers of fake medicine have been given free hand. They said that export worth millions of rupees has been affected by the ‘unconstitutional’ amendment.
The chemist council threatened to give a strike call for indefinite period of time after Eid-ul-Azha if the amendments are not withdrawn. The protesters said that Punjab government made the ‘unconstitutional’ amendment despite the presence of a federal law. They said that Foreign Drug Authority has been established through which foreign medicine will be imported into Pakistan while the medicines have been divided into two categories of standard and substandard. They added that the amendments are brutal and protest against them will go to the last limit.
