If the government reduces taxes on drugs, we will reduce prices, Pharmaceutical Association
Lahore(94news) Pakistan Pharmaceutical Association refused to accept the orders of the government to reduce the prices of medicines.
According to media reports, Prime Minister Imran Khan to the Pharmaceutical Association 72 Within hours the prices of medicines were ordered to be brought back to the old level. Prime Minister Imran Khan said that immediate action should be taken against those who raise the prices of medicines.
وزیراعظم نے وزیراعلیٰ پنجاب عثمان بزدار کو کارروائی کی ہدایت کرتے ہوئے کہا ہے کہ 72 گھنٹوں میں ادویات کی قیمتوں کو پرانی سطح پر واپس لایا جائے۔
Imran Khan directed the Chief Minister of Punjab and said that public representatives should be fully facilitated in public service projects and new development schemes should also be taken up within a month. However, it is now known that the Pakistan Pharmaceutical Association has refused to accept the government's orders to reduce the prices of medicines. Officials of Pakistan Pharmaceutical Association have informed the Health Minister that he should convey all the demands of the association to the Prime Minister. Officials of the Pharmaceutical Association demanded that Prime Minister Imran Khan's order will be accepted on one condition that the government abolishes the new taxes imposed on all medicines. If taxes are not abolished, the prices of medicines will not be reduced.
