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August 20, 2008
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Wednesday
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Sha’aban 17, 1429
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US offers help to set up drug regulatory authority
By Baqir Sajjad Syed
ISLAMABAD, Aug 19: The US has offered to help Pakistan develop a drug and food legislation and set up a drug regulatory authority to ensure availability of safe, efficacious and quality medicines.
US Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt who is on a three-day visit to Pakistan, made the offer during a meeting with Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani here on Tuesday.
Earlier, Mr Leavitt in a meeting with Health Minister Sherry Rehman expressed his government’s interest in sharing expertise and best practices in the establishment of a drug regulatory authority.
Pakistan’s pharmaceutical industry annually exports medicines worth Rs21 billion, but there is not a single manufacturing unit in the country approved by the US Food and Drug Administration.
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