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Status of Pharmaceutical Business in Pakistan 2024 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 961 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 961 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to aq.pharmaveterans@gmail.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Anna Shvets Credit: Anna Tarazevich Credit: Arda Kaykisiz Credit: RDNE Stock project I would like to comment on the current state of pharmaceutical business in Pakistan. Before that, I would like to put down the basics first. Pharmaceutical business is among key businesses in Pakistan for two reasons: one, it is directly related to the state of healthcare in the country; and two, it employs hundreds of thousands of people in various roles. For common understanding, I may list down the major stakeholders. Pharmaceutical Industry – comprises of around eight hundred manufacturers of pharmaceutical products and about six hundred manufacturers...

When Shall Pakistan Pharma Industry Start Using Data? – Part 1 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #775 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #775 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: Nataliya Vaitkevich Photo Credit: Timur Saglambilek The first response to the above question shall be expression of surprise, “We already use lot of data. We buy IQVIA, we have installed sales teams tracking software, we even get data from mobile carrier. All of this is true, but we are still far behind in using data to the extent we should. In these posts, we shall explore our data usage vis-à-vis the international situation. IQVIA MARKET DATA IQVIA is now an American company and has a long history of collecting and publishin...

Pakistan Pharma Industry – Q2/2020 – Blog Post #379 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #379. Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here . IQVIA is the international company which collects, compiles, analyzes and publishes Pharma Industry statistics in most countries of the world. They have an office in Pakistan which does the same for Pakistan Pharma Industry. IQVIA report is published every quarter for the preceding quarter. Their second quarter (Q2 – April to June 2020) report has just come out. A summary is circulating on the social media. The figures are of interest to Pharma industry professionals who would be keenly playing with the data related to their own products as well as those which may be o...