Govt not to increase medicine prices: Senate told.

ISLAMABAD -- Federal Minister for Health Services, Regulations and Coordination Abdul Qadir Patel Tuesday informed the Senate that the government, keeping in view suffering of the people, would not hike the prices of medicine.

Responding to a question, during question hours, he said, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government had increased the prices and thrown medicines out of the reach of common people.

Responding to a question he said, the Liver Transplant Section of Sheikh Zayed Hospital, Lahore was non- functional for the last three years.

However, the Liver Transplant Unit was established in 2011 and it has delivered 200 Living Donor Liver Transplants (LDLT) with the first Cadaveric Liver Transplant in the history of Pakistan and more than 2,300 Liver, Pancreas Cancer, Benign and Trauma Surgeries.

At present, Liver...

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