{"id":83258,"date":"2019-04-06T16:36:29","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T11:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=83258"},"modified":"2019-04-06T16:36:29","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T11:36:29","slug":"crackdown-launched-against-increase-in-prices-of-medicines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=83258","title":{"rendered":"Crackdown launched against increase in prices of medicines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, April 06 (TNS): Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan has launched countrywide crackdown against the pharma companies involved in illegal and unauthorized increase in prices of medicines. <\/p>\n<p>According to a spokesperson of the Drug Regulatory Authority, the action has been initiated after Minister for Health Aamir Kiani took notice of the surge in medicines prices. <\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson said action has been taken against thirty one pharma companies for illegally increasing the prices.<\/p>\n<p>These pharmaceutical companies have also been barred from producing medicines and cases are being registered against them as per the Drug Act.  <\/p>\n<p>One hundred and forty three medicines have also been seized which were being sold at high price.    <\/p>\n<p>In his remarks, Minister for Health Aamir Kiani said stern action will be taken against the companies which breach the law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, April 06 (TNS): Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan has launched countrywide crackdown against the pharma companies involved in illegal and unauthorized increase in prices of medicines. According to a spokesperson of the Drug Regulatory Authority, the action has been initiated after Minister for Health Aamir Kiani took notice of the surge in medicines prices. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83258","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=83258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83259,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83258\/revisions\/83259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}