India stops supply of medicine raw material to Pakistan: PPMA
KARACHI: Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Association (PPMA) has claimed that there could be a shortage of medicine in Pakistan as the Indian companies stopped supplying raw material used in the manufacturing medicine.
“India government has instructed its pharmaceutical companies to stop the supply of medicinal raw material used to make life-saving drugs for an indefinite time in the wake tensions between the two countries,” PPMA chairman Dr Kaiser Waheed said. The Indian suppliers have informed it on phone, the chairman said.
According to the PPMA, this ban can lead to a lack of medicines in Pakistan in just 10 days. Around 40% to 50% of the raw material for medicine made in Pakistan is imported from India.
“The government has advised that the import of raw material for these medicines from other countries,” said Dr Waheed.
Due to the tension between India and Pakistan, a train service running between the two countries, the Samjhota Express, was suspended on Thursday for an indefinite time. However, the Pak-India Friendship Bus departed for Delhi Friday morning. It carried 16 Indian passengers who departed via the Wagah Border after clearing immigration there.
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