ASSALAM O ALAIKUM

GROUP MEMBERS

• Nausheen Khan• Rabia Jamshaid• Nuzhat Fatima• Syeda Umber Rehan

PHARMACEUTICAL

A pharmaceutical is any kind of drug used for medicinal purposes, like:•Cough Syrup •Sleeping pills etc.

INTRODUCTION

Growing rate of Pharmaceutical industry.

The global pharmaceutical market.

Competitive and challenging.

600 Pharmaceutical companies.

HISTORY

Non-existent before early 70's.

Two sections i.e. private and public sector. 

Three manufacturing units located at Lahore, Rawalpindi and Peshawar.

Imported expensive medicines from western countries.

TOP 5 COMPANIES OPERATING IN PAKISTAN

BENEFITS OF LOCAL PHARMA MANUFACTURING SECTOR

Self-Reliance

Foreign exchange earnings

BENEFITS

Employment generation

Female Employme

nt

Indirect employment Investment

BENEFITS

Skill Acquisition

Technology Spillovers

ROLE OF GOVERNMENT

• Health ministry of Pakistan is constituting a committee.• To keep check on the availability of quality drugs

in the market.• 41.2% of country’s people cannot afford

medicines.• Pakistan has initiated to set up biotechnological

plants.

GROWTH OF PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY IN THE ECONOMY OF PAKISTAN

• Growth rate is dropped by 16% to 8% per annum.

• Manufacturing companies are 24 out-of 36 today.

• The latest company to exit Pakistan was Johnson & Johnson.

PROBLEMS TO THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY OF PAKISTAN

Lack of Trained Manpower

Difficulty in Export

Lack of new Technology

Higher Interest Rate

Terrorism

IMPACT OF PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY

• The unavailability of high quality, safe and secure drugs.

• Black marketers and spurious drugs flood the local market .

• Risk of health and treatments.

• Government control.

• Imports.

• Devaluation.

• Low R&D expenditure.

• Law & order situation

CHALLENGES FOR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

NEEDS TO BE DONE

Infrastructure

Technical Support

SkillDevelopment

Self-Reliance

Let Thy Food Be The MedicineAnd Medicine Be Thy Food

Hippocrates