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Debt loops and baby bonds
5+ hour, 18+ min ago (516+ words) A potential solution that addresses both at once is a baby bond structured not as welfare, but as domestic long-tenor capital endowment. For the sake of simplicity, we may call it the Pakistan Child Endowment Account or PCEA. A child…...
Drug prices up by 15pc, not 32pc, since deregulation policy: PPMA
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (178+ words) KARACHI: The Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (PPMA) on Wednesday insisted that medicine prices have increased by an average of 15 per cent since the government announced the deregulation policy in February 2024, not 32pc as claimed by the authorities recently. In a statement,…...
Price deregulation raises medicine costs by 32pc
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (655+ words) " Officials concerned by soaring prices " Senate body to question industry on steep hikes KARACHI: Prices of more than a hundred commonly used medicines have increased by an average of 32 per cent since February last year, after the caretaker government lifted…...
Health insurance closed at public hospitals to promote CM’s
8+ mon, 2+ day ago (572+ words) LAHORE: The Punjab government has closed down the mega Universal Health Insurance (UHI), also known as Sehat Sahulat Programme (SSP), at all the public sector hospitals across the province, suspending all kinds of free healthcare services to the patients visiting…...
Health insurance closed at public hospitals to promote CM’s initiatives
8+ mon, 2+ day ago (572+ words) LAHORE: The Punjab government has closed down the mega Universal Health Insurance (UHI), also known as Sehat Sahulat Programme (SSP), at all the public sector hospitals across the province, suspending all kinds of free healthcare services to the patients visiting…...