Loss of 70 lives due to faulty medicine in Lahore

Medicine, a fundamental right of human life can also cost a huge number of lives. The saying has been dreadfully proved right by the recent loss of 70 lives due to faulty medicine in Lahore. Not only that, it is believed that 400 others are also being treated for the similar symptoms. Officials fear that the contaminated batch of medicines might have distributed among 40,000 people since the date of 15th December, 2011. People who have cardiovascular problems are most affected victims of the faulty batch of medicines. As a result 36 people with problem died over a period of 21 days.

A rapid termination of white cells and blood platelets is caused in the body of the consumers of defected drugs. The symptoms are as similar as the dengue fever which is a mosquito born disease and common in Pakistan during monsoon. Court has remanded three pharmaceutical firms owners who are alleged to supply the drugs to PIC but none of them commented about this allegation. The panic among the heart patients spread as fire because PIC provide free drugs to more or less 600,000 heart patients annually.

But at last it was revealed that the victims were the heart patients who had been using free cardiovascular drugs from the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC). And the government has launched a publicity campaign to tell possible users of these medicines not to use the defected batch of drugs.

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