A senior health official has said the number of people in eastern Pakistan suspected to have died in the last month from taking bad heart medicine has risen to 70.
Saeed Illahi said on Wednesday that an investigation found that a total of 419 heart patients had become sick from taking the drugs, and that 45 of them remained in critical condition. Many of the patients are in the city of Lahore.
Illahi is the head of the health department in Punjab province, of which Lahore is the capital.
The suspected drugs were given free to patients by the state-run Punjab Institute of Cardiology.
Illahi said the government had registered a case against the company accused of manufacturing the faulty medicine.
Javed Akram, another government health official, said patients developed red spots on their skin within days of taking the medicine that is suspected of killing them.
Al Jazeera's Imtiaz Tyab reports.
Comments on "Faulty medicine kills scores in Pakistan"
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Hanif Abbasi ko? ... Hanif Abbasi ko? pakroooooooo,wo chor ha
@youwriteme1 ... @youwriteme1 Muhammad, Prophet of Islam suggested Camel Urine as Medicine and probably drank it himself :
"Some people from the tribe of 'Ukl came to the Prophet and embraced Islam. The climate of Medina did not suit them, so the Prophet ordered them to go to the camels of charity and to drink, their? milk and urine"
Sahih Bukhari 8:82:794
I think daughter ... I think daughter and cow p**s drinking being part of the Hindu Religion should not be discussed. By the way some Indian drink their own urine.? Murar Jee Desai, a former Prime Minster was very fond of it.
Note to ron paul ... Note to ron paul fans: THIS is what will happen if he gets rid of the FDA?
@prosig556 ... @prosig556 Perfection is nowhere. Exceptions r everywhere. Im not saying that my country is so much developed,coz its not. Still very backward. But it doesnt changes the fact that Afghanistan,Pak & Somalia r the most failed nations in the world.?
@TheCelebrityOnline ... @TheCelebrityOnline well, this report is from punjab, why do you put them all in 1 group, if you dont want to take responsibility for rajastan? Dont judge others, if you dont want to be judged yourself.? Even today many hindu drink cow urine and murder female children, so they dont have pay dowry to marry her off, and these are not the peasants but hindu nationalist politicians RSS, BJP. 50% of indian are homeless slum dwellers, these people cannot even afford 2 meals a day.
@prosig556 Chump, ... @prosig556 Chump,dats yo Insane.well the truth is some ppl actually used to do so in the past(800 yrs ago)But only the illiterate ones.I dunno y,maybe due to stupid Hindu mythology.I never gave a damn f**k about Hinduism or any other religion.I dont worship gods,coz there is no such thing as god in reality & Yeah,even today Daughters r killed at birth in Rajasthan,bcoz of illiteracy & their other s**tty tribal rules.but since i aint a Rajasthani,im not one of? em for sure.
@TheCelebrityOnline ... @TheCelebrityOnline oh mountain goat or sheep. I am not pakistani. So why do you indian hindu drink cow p**s, and murder your daughters at birth, no wonder india is the most effeminate country on earth?
@prosig556 You ... @prosig556 You really dunno whats Markhor? Really? U dunno wats the national Animal Of Pak??
@TheCelebrityOnline ... @TheCelebrityOnline whats markhor ? sorry, cow p**s drinker. So do you put a shot of vodkda in Aberdeen angus p**s or do you drink neat cow p**s, either way, you can just dance to harry krishna, and be? the effeminate cow worship. Indians are so gay
@prosig556 Lol. ... @prosig556 Lol. learn how to spell you? illiterate Markhor f**ker.
@TheCelebrityOnline ... @TheCelebrityOnline better? that, then to be cow p**s dribker
This is? what ... This is? what happens when you buy your medication from a dodgy Paki:P
At least they? take ... At least they? take action.
*comment somehow ... *comment somehow relating this to? America*
At least ... At least healthcare? there is free. Unlike America.
Incompetance, ... Incompetance, ignorance, mismanagement.... nah... down-right corruption and greed. surprise surprise. people's welfare does not matter? when it comes to business. Fix the system.
POPULATION CONTROL ... POPULATION CONTROL.? obvious enough.
aw, I miss Kamal ... aw, I miss Kamal Hyder's sexy voice on the Pakistan? videos from al-Jazeera :(
stop? buying fake ... stop? buying fake drugs from India, According the OECD, 75 percent of fake drugs supplied world over have origins in India
They should just ... They should just finish them off. Pakistan is so riddled with? corruption, no one in their right mind should take any medicines made there.
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