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Shahbaz suspects plot in drug deaths
[Dawn] The chief minister has blamed a medicine manufactured and supplied by a Sindh pharmaceutical company for scores of heart patients' deaths in  Punjab in the recent weeks.At a presser here on Wednesday, Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said his government would thoroughly investigate whether the supply of the tablets was by a mistake or a "conspiracy against the people of Punjab". He said the factory producing the drug had been sealed in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... and its owners put on the exit control list by the Sindh government. Mr Sharif cited reports from a British laboratory, saying the killer drug, Iso Tab, produced by the Efroze Chemicals contained 50mgs of an anti-malaria agent. He said doctors would prescribe only 25mgs per week of the agent to malaria patients while heart patients were prohibited from using it. To the relief of poor heart patients affected by the tablet, he said, local health experts with their European counterparts had found the drug's antidote which was now being administered to the affected people. The chief minister said the Punjab inspector general had gone to Bloody Karachi on a special plane to initiate an action against company officials. He said the Sindh chief secretary had confirmed that the chemicals factory had been sealed and its owners restricted from traveling abroad. Posted by: Fred 2012-02-03 |
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