pharmaceutical industry of pakistan

1. ASSALAM O ALAIKUM

2. GROUP MEMBERS
• Nausheen Khan
• Rabia Jamshaid
• Nuzhat Fatima
• Syeda Umber Rehan

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

6. INTRODUCTION
 Growing rate of Pharmaceutical industry.
 The global pharmaceutical market.
 Competitive and challenging.
 600 Pharmaceutical companies.

7. 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.

8. TOP 5 COMPANIES OPERATING IN PAKISTAN

9. BENEFITS OF LOCAL PHARMA MANUFACTURING
SECTOR

10. Self-
Reliance
Foreign
exchange
earnings
BENEFITS
Employment
generation
Female
Employment

11. Indirect
employment Investment
BENEFITS
Skill
Acquisition
Technology
Spillovers

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. PROBLEMS TO THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY OF
PAKISTAN

15. Lack of Trained
Manpower
Difficulty in Export
Lack of new
Technology
Higher Interest Rate
Terrorism

16. 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.

17. • Government control.
• Imports.
• Devaluation.
• Low R&D expenditure.
• Law & order situation
CHALLENGES FOR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

18. NEEDS TO BE DONE

19. Infrastructure
Technical
Support
Skill
Development
Self-Reliance

21. Let Thy Food Be The Medicine
And Medicine Be Thy Food
Hippocrates