Boycott of costly medicines in Balochistan

QUETTA:Balochistan Medical Store Association and All Balochistan Medicine Traders Association has announced boycotting pharmaceutical companies that have increased prices of their products and urged doctors not to prescribe the products of these companies.

According to details, Balochistan Medical Store Association and All Balochistan Medicine Traders Association in collaboration with Markazi Anjuman-e-Tajiran Balochistan arranged a one-day protest camp at Jinnah Road against the unjust increase in price of medicines.

Owners of medical stores said that they would not keep medicines of those pharmaceutical companies in their medical stores that have increased cost of their products.

Office bearers of All Balochistan Medicine Traders Association said that increase in the cost of medicines was tantamount to snatching the right of life from the masses. It was decided to chalk out a protest against the unjust increase in prices of medicines.