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Pakistan Lifts Ban On Import Of Lifesaving Drugs From India Over Fears Of Potentially Severe Shortages
Swarajya Staff
May 13, 2020, 12:46 PM | Updated 12:46 PM IST
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Pakistan has lifted the ban it had imposed on importing Indian medicines and medicinal raw materials to prevent shortages, Economic Times has reported.
This development comes after the nation’s pharmaceutical industry’s also demanded a review of the ban while claiming that such an embargo may potentially cause a severe shortage of medicines in the country.
A pharmaceutical body also warned that any attempt to disrupt the global supply chains related to the country’s pharma industry will hamper the country’s ability to treat Covid-19 cases.
The country is currently importing various vitamins like B1, B2, B6, B12, D3 and zinc sulphate monohydrate, drugs and medicinal salts from India. The imports also include various vaccines for polio, tuberculosis and tetanus.
Pakistan had placed a blanket ban on all imports from India following the abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir.
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