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Pakistan Pharma Industry SWOT – Part 20 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #611 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #611 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. Opening Note February 2022 marks my completing 47 years of working in Pharma Industry. Allah be praised. I am still working. The first half of my working career was spent in Multinational companies, and the latter half in the Local Pharma, making me well-versed with both innovators and generics markets. I also had the opportunity to work in business as well as operations.  My journey of near half century is also the journey of Pharma Industry in Pakistan. Great changes have occurred in this time and a lot could be written about it. In my blogs, which were started ...

Corruption in Pharmaceuticals – Sum Up – Blog Post #505 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #505. 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. Continued from Previous…… This series is based on a report compiled by Jilian Clare Cohen1, Monique Mrazek2, and Loraine Hawkins3 for the World Bank. Our long discourse on corruption in pharmaceuticals now comes to an end. In this part we shall conclude with some recommendations. The six decision points identified by the authors of the report for the World Bank are certainly the most critical steps. There are following additional factors which let the corruption continue and/or further flourish. These factors are more relevant to developing countries like Pakistan.  Political Will W...