Summary The WHO has reported that the main reason behind PIC deaths was Isotab.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – World Health Organisation (WHO) has completed the inquiry report of 200 casualties at Punjab Institute of Cardiology in Lahore.
The WHO has confirmed that 14% extra anti-malaria medicine was added in the Isotab pills that caused casualties of more than 200 patients.
The report was prepared by a team headed by Dr Mohamed Bin Shahna, Zonal Officer World Health Organisation.
The report says that Isotab pills were taken back from 46,000 patients across the country including Punjab and four to six thousand lives were saved by the precautionary measure.
The WHO team embarked on an intensive tour of Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad visiting hospitals, laboratories, the Punjab Chief of Police, State Secretary of Health, senior government officials and pharmacy and manufacturers’ associations.
The WHO has urged the government to improve the rules and regulation of the drug regulatory authority and develop the process and quality of medicine manufacturing according to international standards.
The WHO has mailed the inquiry report to the federal and the provincial governments.
More than 200 people died and around 1000 became seriously ill in Pakistan after taking contaminated cardiac medicines.
