ZAFA Pharmaceutical Laboratories (P) Ltd.

Pharma / Medical

Karachi, Pakistan

AFA Pharmaceuticals Laboratories (Private) Limited is a Private Limited Company, founded in 1973, by its present Chairman and Chief Executive, Mr. Muhammad Amin Khan. Our founder firmly believes in the theory of "MEDICINES FOR ALL", which plays a key role in setting up the prices of our new introductions in the market. Our motto is "NOBODY SHOULD SUFFER FROM WANT OF MEDICATION"ZAFA is the 1st Pakistan based Multinational Pharmaceutical manufacturing concern with its own manufacturing facility based in Khartoum Sudan. In addition to this we have presence in various African, Middle Eastern and South American countries.

We are an ISO 9001:2000 certified manufacturing concern and has emerged as a leading Pharmaceutical Group of Companies that has brought the concept of Dedicated Manufacturing facilities in Pakistan. We are proud to be the 1st Pakistan BasedMultinational Pharmaceutical Manufacturing concern with our own operational l facilities in Khartoum, Sudan. We are presently ranked at #2 (we sell above 60 million unit packs per annum) in Pakistan as per Unit Wise sales and are operating with Nine (9) manufacturingfacilities and two (2) to be commissioned soon. All these facilities are Pharmaceutical l facilities. In addition there is one more facility for printing and packaging material. We started our manufacturing and marketing operations with anti-inflammatory and potassium supplements besides iron preparations.

Today ZAFA product range represents a wide category of therapeutic classes and we are one of the few companies in the world to manufacture Insulin formulations (both Hunman and Bovine). Our present product range includes above 300 products with another 30 in the pipeline, 13 of our products are leaders in Pakistan as per Unit Wise sales. ZAFA is an equal opportunity employer and employs a staff of around 3000 with around 50% being females. ZAFA has one of the largest manufacturing facilities in Pakistan with total covered area of over 500,000 square feet. We firmly believe that only professional people can run a progressive organization and implement its believes and philosophies. Our employees are one of our most important assets and carefully tailored training programs are run round the year for updating their knowledge and skills.

In addition to Quality Control facilities at each of our units, we have a fully equipped Central Quality Assurance/Control Laboratory to monitor Quality at all our facilities. 1200 Quality system documents have been developed and implemented to streamline different processes and an effective command and control system is present to ensure consistency and reproducibility. All Quality records are indexed and filed in such a way to ensure easy and quick retrieval of records to show objective evidence of the effective operations of the company and compliance to our products.

The management has developed an internal quality audit plan to check the effectiveness of the command and control system and a cross facility team has been developed and trained to perform independent audits of different facilities within the group. All this done in line with our prime policy statement of "ensuring the availability of Quality drugs at Affordable prices throughout the country and world".