GUJRANWALA Dec 28: Joint teams of health and tehsil municipal administration have sealed a dozen medical stores and seized 8,000 bottles of toxic cough syrup CM’s Adviser on Health Khwaja Suleman Rafiq visited Gujranwala on Friday and held a meeting with district administration and health department officials and ordered a crackdown on medical store owners selling toxic cough syrup. The meeting was told that 11 raiding teams comprising tehsil municipal officers (TMOs), police and health department officials had been constituted to visit medical stores. — Correspondent

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