{"id":32577,"date":"2017-11-22T21:33:40","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T16:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=32577"},"modified":"2017-11-22T21:33:40","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T16:33:40","slug":"govt-takes-various-steps-to-ensure-transparency-in-the-pharmaceutical-sector-senate-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=32577","title":{"rendered":"Govt takes various steps to ensure transparency in the pharmaceutical sector: Senate told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Islamabad, Nov. 22 (TNS):<\/strong> Minister for National Health Services Saira Afzal Tarar has said government has taken various steps to ensure transparency in the pharmaceutical sector.<\/p>\n<p>She was responding to a calling attention notice, moved by Karim Ahmed Khawaja in the Senate on Wednesday regarding report of the World Health Organization on governance in the public pharmaceutical sector.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister said that Pakistan itself had requested the World Health Organization to evaluate gaps in its pharma sector. \u00a0She said WHO report has also acknowledged Pakistan&#8217;s steps towards improving its management structure for medicines. She said the establishment of Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan\u00a0 is a progressive step and backed and supported by the professional and political leadership.<\/p>\n<p>She said the agency is enduring transparency of medicines, governance and decreasing the vulnerability of the system to corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Saira Afzal Tarar said that DRAP is likely to qualify for WHO recognition in next two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Nov. 22 (TNS): Minister for National Health Services Saira Afzal Tarar has said government has taken various steps to ensure transparency in the pharmaceutical sector. She was responding to a calling attention notice, moved by Karim Ahmed Khawaja in the Senate on Wednesday regarding report of the World Health Organization on governance in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589],"class_list":["post-32577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national","tag-islamabad","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32578,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32577\/revisions\/32578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}