LHC directs govt to ensure availability of masks, hand sanitizers, life-saving drugs.

LAHORE -- The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday directed the government to ensure the availability of surgical and protective masks, hand sanitizer, life-saving drugs amid the COVID-19 pandemic, ARY News reported.

LHC judge Justice Muhammad Sajid Mehmood Sethi conducted hearing on a plea filed against hike in prices of surgical masks, hand sanitizers, temperature guns, life-saving drugs.

The court directed the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) and other respondents in the case to submit a reply till June 17.

Earlier on Sunday, the Punjab Healthcare Commission (PHC) had allowed the private hospitals to purchase Tocilizumab [Actemra] Injection to treat the critically-ill patients of coronavirus.

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