Pakistan, Sept. 28 -- The Sustainable Development Goal- SDG 3 presented by the UN emphasizes that there is an urgent need to ensure that everyone has access to quality treatment at affordable costs. Therefore, among several interventions, one method to control health-care costs is to make sure that medicines are reasonably priced and affordable to the general population. Pakistan ratified this SDG's after getting failed in implementing MDG's.
However, affordability of medicines seems to be of low importance to policy makers in Pakistan and from 2018 this newly elected government is not giving much time to this serious issue. In recent months, prices of hundreds of essential and life-saving medicines have increased greatly in Pakistan, maki...