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Drug reaction: Shahbaz says will probe conspiracy or negligence
LAHORE: Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif said it is to be probed that whether the drug reaction matter was a conspiracy or negligence, Geo News reported.He was addressing the media here today about the spurious medicine issue. 'The pharmaceutical has been sealed and the names of the owners of the company have been put on ECL.'
To treat the patients affected by the fake drug, an antidote has been produced which is being used in hospitals, the CM said.
A laboratory in London declared one of the cardiac drugs as contaminated with an antimalarial, which caused the deaths of more than hundred patients in Lahore.
According to details, the samples of Isotab (tablet), which were dispatched to a state-of-the-art lab in London, were tested as substandard and injurious to health.
The lab report revealed Isotab samples to be heavily contaminated with Pyrimethamine, a commonly used antimalarial.
Traces of antimalarial in the samples of "Isotab" were dangerously high, it added.
Courtesy www.geo.tv