LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday turned down a plea to issue an injunction, restraining pharmaceutical companies from hiking prices of medicine. The court rejected the petitioner’s plea to stop the pharma companies from jacking up medicine prices until the petition is decided. The petitioner stated before the court that the recent hike in medicine prices had added to the people’s woes. He complained to the judge that the firms had increased by 100 per cent prices of medicine and demanded that the recent hike be declared illegal. He said the increase in medicine prices was inevitable owing to various reasons.

Source: Pakistan Today April 11, 2019 14:48 UTC