Liability for Defective Pharmaceutical Products in Pakistani Law

The major significance of the research is to provide protection to the interest of patients against the defective pharmaceutical products. The pharmaceutical manufacturers are the strong and well established business entities in Pakistan. The patients and the consumers are, on the other hand, week t...

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Published in:Pakistan vision 2019-12, Vol.20 (2), p.58
Main Authors: Muhammad Akbar Khan, Kundi, Khalil, Lutfullah Saqib
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accountability
Compensation
Consumers
Courts
Criminal liability
Defective products
Developed countries
Drug testing
Good Manufacturing Practice
Health care
Industrialized nations
Injuries
Legal liability
Legislation
Liability
Litigation
Manufacturers
Manufacturing
Medical negligence
Negligence
Pharmaceutical industry
Principles
Prosecutions
Retirement benefits
State court decisions
Testing laboratories
Tort
Torts
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Summary:The major significance of the research is to provide protection to the interest of patients against the defective pharmaceutical products. The pharmaceutical manufacturers are the strong and well established business entities in Pakistan. The patients and the consumers are, on the other hand, week to raise their slogans against them. The major reasons of low number of the medical negligence and the pharmaceutical cases in Pakistan are the lack of awareness of the rights of healthcare and the little scope of the law of tort. The drug induced injuries are mostly not taken seriously by the patients because there is no proper and effective mechanism prevailed in Pakistan to trace the roots of the injuries. The role of the drug inspector is very critical and doubtful due to less accountability and ineffective technical as well as legal mechanism in the country. In most of the cases in Pakistan, the real culprit is not brought to litigation and the retailers are declared guilty by the courts or acquitted due to week prosecution case. The present drug laws are no compatible with the modern regimes and schemes adopted globally by the developed countries i.e. Germany, United Kingdom, United State of America and Sweden.
ISSN:1681-5742