Ministry of Health (Pakistan)
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| Formed | 1 June 2011 |
| Headquarters | Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory |
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| Website | http://www.nhsrc.gov.pk/ |
The Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination (Urdu: وزارت صحت, abbreviated as MoNHSRC) is a cabinet level ministry of the Government of Pakistan with responsibility for national public health. The current Minister of State for National Health Services Regulation and Coordination is Saira Afzal Tarar.
Healthcare was transferred to the provincial health departments after Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan in June 2011. In May 2013 however the federal ministry was reinstated by Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso, as the Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination. The function of this new ministry was to provide provision of medical services, frame health policies and enforce the same at a national level.
The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan was established in 2012 and is the largest department in the Ministry of National Health Services Regulation and Coordination, with its headquarters in Islamabad and regional offices in the provincial capitals of Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar and Quetta. Several divisions are present in the department which include:
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