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Ameliorating Drug Shortages in Pakistan (Policy)

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  • Shahid Mehmood

    (Research Fellow, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Islamabad.)

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In mid-March 2022, a letter by Pakistan Young Pharmacist Association (PYPA) caught the headline of major newspapers in Pakistan. The letter, written in the context of the prevalent shortage of paracetamol, more or less alleged that the drug manufacturing companies were deliberately causing the shortages. They argued that drug manufacturers wanted to compel customers to buy a higher dose of the said drug (665 mg) since it had a significantly higher price than lower doses. The letter again brings to light the critical (but lesser discussed) issue of persistent drug shortages in Pakistan. Every year, critically needed drugs tend to vanish off the shelves, to be either found in black or imported to meet shortages (the below table contains a few sample cases of shortages since two decades).

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  • Shahid Mehmood, 2022. "Ameliorating Drug Shortages in Pakistan (Policy)," The Pakistan Development Review, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, vol. 61(1), pages 145-148.
    • Handle: RePEc:pid:journl:v:61:y:2022:i:1:p:145-148
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    Drug Shortages;

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