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Ethics and Pharmaceutical Industry – Sum Up – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #798 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #798 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: cottonbro studio Photo Credit: Karolina Grabowska Photo Credit: Tima Miroshnichenko Several posts were published under this topic, but each post was complete in itself. This is the last post. Sum Up Let us start with a question. Pharmaceutical business is like any other business, why should there be so much emphasis on ethics here? There are two responses to this. One, two businesses touch lives life like no other business; food and drugs. Food gives health and bad food can give disease, which may require treatment. Generally, an imminent threat...

Tender Spots of Pharma Industry I – Blog Post #386 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #386. 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 . This is the season of tenders. Tendering is a process through which government and private institutions purchase items of their requirement. There is plenty to talk about this process, but we shall not talk about these tenders. Tender is also soft touch, behavior, talk which is used when handling with care is desired; Tender Loving Care – TLC is in common use. We are not going to discuss that either. Tender in medical terms is any spot which hurts upon touching. When we get a sprain for example, we have a tender ankle which becomes more painful when touch...

Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #289. Pharma Veterans shares the wealth of knowledge and wisdom of Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site.  If you wish to share your stories, ideas and thoughts, please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here . Continued from Previous…… In the previous blog, we saw the gaps in regulatory structure which may encourage Fake/Spurious/Counterfeit drugs. In this post we shall see how industry gaps work. Pakistan Pharma market is very unevenly divided; 95% business is shared by only top 50 companies. 5% market share is available for the rest 600 companies. We can say there is an Elite Club and a Commoners Club. There is no middle class here. Elite companies operate in a different world. They have decently designed marketing campaigns, which may be seriously expensive. ...

Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #288. Pharma Veterans shares the wealth of knowledge and wisdom of Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site.  If you wish to share your stories, ideas and thoughts, please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here . Continued from Previous…… We have seen in adequate detail various aspects of Pharma Industry and its business; we have also seen how DRAP works to control and regulate both segments. We now take this discussion to the possible problem areas where things can go wrong. Fake/Sub-Standard/Spurious/Counterfeit Drugs are a reflection of the malaise/weakness/rot/disease of the system. It is a problem in many countries like us as they also operate in a similar fashion. For example, it has been projected that 25% medicines in India are Fake, Spurious etc. No genuin...