Pak firms eye $7b pharma market of Central Asian region
Source: The Nation –
ISLAMABAD – Pakistani pharmaceutical company’s representatives held sideline meetings with health ministers and delegations of foreign countries who were attending first ever two-day Global Health Summit held in Islamabad this week.
In one of the bilateral meetings on the sidelines, Health Minsiter of Kyrgyzstan, Alymkadyr Beishenaliev met several Pakistani pharmaceutical representatives and showed interest in importing Pakistani medicines in a $650 million pharmaceutical market of Kyrgyzstan’s 7 million population. He also informed local manufactures that new government policy will only allow state owned pharmacies in government run hospitals to provide affordable and quality medicines in his country.