ISLAMABAD
\nThe e-governance system of the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) has entered the final phase as the institution took steps to switch to the paperless working environment.
\nIn a revolutionary step for facilitating the pharmaceutical industry besides ensuring transparency, quality and a paperless working environment, the DRAP has started digitalisation of all of its departments through its e-governance system.
\nSources closer to the health ministry said that the e-governance system of DRAP will be formally inaugurated by Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Health Dr Faisal Sultan.
\nThe authority has digitalised the records of imports and exports besides accepting online applications for the licencing of medicines, said sources, adding that NOCs are also being issued to the citizens for importing medicines.
\nIt was learnt that DRAP has digitalised its 15-year records besides storing 4.5 million documents to its new e-governance system.
\nIn December last year, DRAP had launched an online application management system named Pakistan Integrated Regulatory Information Management System (PIRIMS) with the support of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to get linked with the pharmaceutical companies and applicants.<\/p>\n
The online application management system had linked the functions of
\nlicensing, registration, inspection, post-market surveillance and
\npharmacovigilance on one platform.<\/p>\n
The software had been developed according to international standards of
\ndata and supports Common Technical Document (CTD) submission, online
\ninspection reporting of pharmaceutical firms, quality assurance and
\nmarket surveillance of medicines and adverse drug reaction reporting.
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ISLAMABAD The e-governance system of the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) has entered the final phase as the institution took steps to switch to the paperless working environment. In a revolutionary step for facilitating the pharmaceutical industry besides ensuring transparency, quality and a paperless working environment, the DRAP has started digitalisation of all of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-232374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n