Karachi faces severe shortage of life-saving drugs
- 09-Dec-2023
KARACHI: Karachi, the largest city of Pakistan, is facing a severe shortage of essential medicines, including life-saving drugs, causing stress for patients and citizens, ARY News reported on Saturday. Sources told ARY News that Karachi is severely affected by shortage of key medicines, including vaccines, insulin for diabetes management, epilepsy drugs and several other products. […]
Pharmaceutical firms threaten protests from January 5
- 02-Jan-2023
LAHORE: The pharmaceutical firms have threatened to start protests from January 5 to mount pressure on the federal government for addressing the sector’s issues, ARY News reported on Sunday. The country is facing an acute shortage of life-saving drugs due to the wrong policies of the federal government. After facing troubles, the pharmaceutical companies threatened […]
Sindh govt criticised for inaction on shortage of medicines
- 04-Dec-2022
KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Deputy General-Secretary and a Member of the Provincial Assembly (MPA), Khurrum Sher Zaman, censured the Sindh government for inaction on the shortage of medicines for fatal diseases in the government hospitals, ARY News reported on Sunday. Khurrum Sher Zaman alleged in a statement that Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has increased its […]
Abbasi Shaheed Hospital faces shortage of medicines
- 12-Oct-2022
KARACHI: The administration of the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital has been facing a severe shortage of medicines which forced patients to buy drugs from other pharmacies, ARY News reported on Tuesday. Abbasi Shaheed Hospital – a medical facility administered by Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) – is facing a severe shortage of medicines. Due to the shortage, […]
Patient complains of rude staff, shortage of medicines at Holy Family Hospital
- 13-Jan-2019
RAWALPINDI: A woman on Sunday complained the federal Minister for Health Services Aamir Mehmood Kayani about the rude staff and shortage of medicines at the Holy Family Hospital in Rawalpindi. The woman told the minister, who was on the visit to monitor the healthcare facilities in the hospital, that she was forced to buy the […]