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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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