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Ensuring strict quality compliance and safe distribution standards of pharmaceutical products across all healthcare facilities.

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Advanced chemical analysis and technical evaluation conducted to verify drug efficacy and safety compliance.

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Maintaining high standards of pharmaceutical oversight through meticulous laboratory inspection and testing.

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Regulating pharmaceutical manufacturing and ensuring the authenticity, safety, and potency of life-saving medicines.

Directorate General Drug Control and Pharmacy Services

Welcome to the official portal of the Directorate General Drug Control & Pharmacy Services, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Driven by our mandate to safeguard public health and our objective to ensure the availability of safe, effective, and high-quality therapeutic goods at affordable prices, our organization oversees the provincial pharmaceutical sector through four core operational sections: 

• Quality Control & Drug Regulation: Ensures the enforcement of The Drugs Act, 1976 and DRAP Act, 2012, managing licensing, routine market surveillance, and legal action against unregistered, counterfeit, or substandard therapeutic goods. 

• Quality Assurance & Drug Testing Laboratories (DTLs): Conducts rigorous laboratory testing and spot screening via static and mobile DTLs to guarantee that all circulating medicines meet high safety, quality, and WHO-aligned compliance standards. 

• Medicine Coordination Cell (MCC): Provides technical assistance and framework rate-contracting for the procurement of cost-effective, high-quality medicines, disposables, and equipment across public health facilities in KP. 

• Pharmacy Services: Oversees clinical and hospital pharmacy management, pharmacovigilance, medication safety, and rational drug use policies to elevate patient care standards statewide.

Directorate General Drug Control and Pharmacy Services

Our Core Services

Quality Control & Drug Regulation

Enforcing the Drug Act 1976 & DRAP Act 2012; e-Drug sale licensing.

Quality Assurance & DTL

Conducting tests and issuing reports on drugs & medical devices.

Medicine Coordination Cell (MCC)

Selection & rate contracting of essential medicines, medical devices, etc.

Pharmacy Services

Hospital & clinical pharmacy management; pharmacovigilance & medication safety.

Drug Control — Key Performance Indicators

33441

Inspections Made

24463

Samples Taken

4277

Seizures (Form-4/6)

5146

Cases Referred to PQCB

1439

Prosecutions Launched

970

Cases Decided by Drug Court

395

Medicine Shops Sealed

PKR 25 M

Total Fines Imposed

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23 samples declared substandard, 37 unregistered, 16 spurious, and 19 misbranded — driving targeted enforcement action province-wide.