Two more fall prey to drug reaction in Lahore

LAHORE: Two more patients fell prey to substandard medicine in Lahore bringing the death toll to over 100, Geo News reported.

According to details cardiac patient 70-year-old Anwar Bibi died at Mayo Hospital Lahore while Maulvi Rafiq, 50 died of drug reaction at Tehsil Headquarters Hospital, Muridke.

Meanwhile, patients are facing several problems in exchange of the contaminated medicines in different hospitals.

A laboratory in London declared one of the cardiac drugs, which caused the deaths as contaminated with an antimalarial.

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.

Experts are attributing Pyrimethamine to those deadly reactions, which continue to kill cardiac patients using the tainted life-saving drugs.

Traces of antimalarial in the samples of “Isotab” were dangerously high, it added.