Huge quantity of Panadol tablets recovered from Lahore

Huge quantity of Panadol tablets recovered from Lahore by the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) Punjab on Saturday.

Punjab health department spokesperson said that the notice done to cause an artificial shortage of Panadol in Punjab.

The DRAP recovered over 50 cartons of Panadol tablets in a task in the Lohari Gate area of Lahore. The Panadol tablets recovered in the raids sold at exorbitant rates.

Pakistan is freshly, facing a severe shortage of paracetamol in the form of tablets and syrups as well as injections at a time when dengue fever has created mess in the country and in the flood-affected areas, people are falling sick due to malaria, typhoid, cholera, diarrhoea and other diseases.

On Friday, the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) offered a main facility to paracetamol manufacturing companies amid a shortage of paracetamol, said sources.

Sources said that the local paracetamol manufacturing companies will get a big facility on re-production, the company will have to produce 15 thousand paracetamol packets in a partial period.

Sources said that the company to bring three million paracetamol tablets in the market, if the task completed, the successful company able to register a pharma product with DRAP instantly, the sources said.