When the patients of malaria, dengue and different types of fever are increasing across Pakistan, pharmaceutical companies, hoarders and profiteers have started selling Panadol tablets at exorbitant rates.
The fever medicine has become scarce across the country, with Panadol tablets being sold at excessive rates in the market after the pharmaceutical company stopped its production.
A strip of ten tablets of Panadol is being sold for Rs 70 to 100. The strip of Panadol tablets in Islamabad is selling for 70 rupees, 100 rupees in Quetta and 120 rupees in Karachi.
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A limited number of tablets are being provided to consumers at the stores where the drug is available.
Panadol is not available anywhere in Lahore and Peshawar, patients are forced to use the Calpol, while in Quetta, 10 tablets of Febrol are available for Rs 118.
It has been learned that GSK Pakistan was manufacturing Panadol at a loss for the past several months, which was no longer possible to sustain, and if the government approved the new price, the company was willing to resume the manufacturing process.
