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LAHORE: Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif on Wednesday said that according to tests conducted in a London laboratory, substandard medicine caused the deaths of dozens of people in the province, DawnNews reported.
Speaking at a press conference, the chief minister said that the medicine contained anti-malarial chemical 14 times more than required.
He said the medicine, suspected to have caused the deaths of cardiac patients in Punjab, was manufactured by a pharmaceutical company in Karachi.
The chief minister moreover said that the company had now been sealed and its owners’ names had been put on the Exit Control List (ECL).
Sharif further said that the antidote to the medicine in question had been made available in hospitals across the country and was being distributed in hospitals.
The test reports of the London laboratory would be submitted before the judicial commission and the apex court and would also be made public in order to prosecute the culprits, said Sharif.
Moreover, the chief minister vowed to investigate as how all the laboratories from Karachi to Peshawar were unable to conduct tests on the suspected medicines.
“Any doubts about our intentions would now be removed,” said the chief minister.
