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Patients suffer as production of cheap medicines for mental ailments discontinued
Karachi
December 27, 2020
Despite a multifold increase in the prevalence of mental health and neurological diseases, dozens of cost-effective medicines used for the treatment of psychiatric illnesses and neurological disorders have vanished from the Pakistani market after local and multinational companies discontinued their production for being non-profitable for them, causing immense hardships to patients.
These drugs include psychoactive drugs antipsychotic drugs, antidepressants, mood stabilizers, anticholinergics, antihistamine, sedative and antiemetic, stimulant for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and anticonvulsants. All these drugs used to be prescribed to people having mental health issues and neurological disorders as they were immensely cost-effective and in the reach of common people, experts said.