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Challenges for Pakistan Pharma Industry in 2023 – Part 2 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #772 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #772 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: Anna Tarazevich Photo Credit: Edward Jenner Photo Credit: Karolina Grabowska Cost of Quality Control – Quality control of APIs is more stringent and rightly so. Several steps are needed at various stages of production to remove chemicals used in processing, which are many and must be removed completely, or kept in a narrow, acceptable range. The CoA – Certificate of Analysis must mention the detail of such residual materials. The finished goods manufacturers rely on the CoA of API manufacturer; even otherwise, they do not have the ...

Opportunities in Pharma Industry for New Graduates – Sciences – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #695 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #695 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. I am starting this series of posts in which I shall give ideas about what opportunities new graduates can find in pharmaceutical industry. The need has been identified by ‘Scientific Pakistan’, an organization which is supporting the youth in developing their skills and securing their future. Pharmaceutical Industry is a large industry; it employs a large number of people in various departments. There are upward of 800 manufacturing units of various sizes. Pakistani people consume about 1,000 billion rupees worth of medicines in a year, the ...

Pharmaceutical Business – Trends and Challenges – Part 2 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #668 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #668 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. Continued from Previous…… Our Pace vis-à-vis the Developed Countries The gap between our Pharma industry and that in the developed countries is increasing rapidly in recent times. We had always been slow, but the rest of the world has become faster and is gaining further speed due to huge advancements in technology. Pharmaceutical business is regulated at all steps and the main regulator is Drug Regulatory Authority Pakistan – DRAP. Prior to this, it was Drug Control Organization – DCO under the Ministry of Health. The staff moved to DRAP when it...

NEGOTIATIONS – Pharma Scenarios 2 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #666 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #666 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. We discussed in the last post that seemingly the biggest negotiations are with the suppliers and vendors. There are other critically important areas also where negotiation is required to arrive at the mutually satisfying position. Customers Pharma people deal with five types of customers: Doctors, Pharmacies, Hospitals, Distributors, and International Buyers. For long, the doctors were not in the list of people to negotiate with, but now it is so. Previously, if they accepted the product, they would give prescriptions which will convert into business for the company. N...