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Viagra goes official in Pakistan!:
[Health India]: Islamabad, Nov 27 : Viagra, the male potency drug, will now be available to Pakistanis officially.
According to The News, the drug appellate board under the Pakistan
Health Ministry met early this week in Islamabad and agreed to allow
registration of Viagra
for sale in the open market.
Besides Viagra, three other potency medicines made by Abbott, Lilly and Bayer pharma companies would be registered as official drugs.
Made by Pfizer pharma, New York, and
sold to millions in almost 118 countries, Viagra had been struggling
for past five years to win its case in Pakistan. But, Islamabad
had been reluctant to register the medicine both for the type of
its fame, and also due to the fact that death of a Viagra user in
the west in 1998 was connected with the medicine.
The drug was, however, widely available in Pakistan through black marketing, the paper added.
It further said that all provincial governments as well as board of experts consented in favour of the registration of Viagra. It was also agreed that Viagra should be allowed to be sold in Pakistan to patients on doctors' prescription only. (ANI) source :-http://www.newkerala.com
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