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Pharma markets face shortage of over 100 life-saving drugs

Pakistan Published 28 September 2026, 04:13 · archived 27 Sep 2026

KARACHI: More than 100 life-saving medicines are currently unavailable in Pakistan, making it difficult for patients to access essential treatment for conditions including cancer, hypertension, and diabetes, according to drug manufacturers and suppliers. They say medicines have been going out of production one by one over the past two years, as rising costs have exceeded their prices in retail markets, making it financially unviable to continue manufacturing. According to the manufacturers, they have repeatedly approached the government to revise up medicine prices to make it feasible for them...

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