KARACHI: Drug Regulation Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) is planning to establish a much needed ‘Code of Ethics’ for doctors and pharmaceutical companies, which will restrict direct contact between doctors and drug manufacturing companies. It had been a well-known fact that doctors received perks in different forms from pharmaceutical companies for prescribing their particular medicines to patients. If companies want to send doctors to attend conferences abroad, they would have to do that through DRAP,” DRAP CEO Dr Mohammad Aslam told Pakistan Today. “In this way, pharma companies would not be able to entice doctors to prescribe their drugs,” he added. He said this step would hopefully reduce over prescription of drugs by doctors while prescribing medicines to patients.

Source: Pakistan Today December 04, 2017 15:33 UTC