Posts Tagged ‘South Asia’
Clinic sealed for selling stolen and expired medicines
The health officials after recovering stolen and expired medicines of Health Department Punjab Hospital have sealed the clinic and informed Chief Drugs Inspector Punjab and Quality Control Board. Drug Inspector Attock, Sahibzada Tariq Masood Shah on the directives of Executive District Officer (EDO) Health, Dr Mussarat Hussain raided a private hospital run by Dr Sher…
[...]UN task force warns people against buying medicines online
A United Nations-led task force has warned people against buying medicines from rouge websites as 50 per cent of the drugs sold online may be counterfeit which could promote drug resistant strains of the disease, worsen medical conditions and even kill patients. It also called for strengthening laws to deal with such online pharmacies to…
[...]Store sealed for selling expired drugs
NAWABSHAH: A medical store located in front of the People s Medical College Hospital was sealed by Provincial Drug Inspector on a complaint of Civil Judge and Judicial Magistrate on the allegation of selling expired drugs. The complaint of expired drugs was lodged by Civil Judge and Judicial Magistrate Malik Roshan Afzal. The judge said…
[...]Two accused over ‘fake’ HIV tests
Two men have appeared in court in West Bengal over the alleged mis-selling of kits which were used to test people for HIV/Aids and hepatitis. Police say Monozyme India sold hundreds of thousands of the kits, originally designed to test for pregnancy or other conditions, under false pretences. 30 October 2006 Read the full story…
[...]Raid in Aminabad medicine market
LUCKNOW: Finally the district health officials woke upto reports in the media about the circulation of spurious drugs in the state capital. A team of drug control authorities and police personnel raided the wholesale medicine market in Aminabad and took random samples to check the authenticity of the drugs. The drugs have been sent to…
[...]Fake medical kits racket busted
FOLLOWING a police inquiry, a principal supplier of medical kits — used for testing for infections like HIV, hepatitis, malaria and others — was charged with tampering the manufacturing and expiry dates of the kits. These kits with tampered labels of expiry dates were reportedly supplied to government hospitals, blood banks and even private retail…
[...]Spurious drug unit detected
Police on Monday night unearthed a spurious syrup factory and seized 5,000 bottles of addictive phensidyl syrup from Porahati Bazaar in the Keraniganj area of the capital. 27 September 2006 Read the full story at gulf-times.com.
[...]Spurious medicines
ADULTERATED medicines, including lifesaving drugs, are flooding the domestic market, it is alleged, while the country is exporting high-quality ones across the world. Taking the opportunity of the lax in supervision of the local market by the concerned department, a section of the dishonest pharmacists are engaged in such business in adulterated medicines that are…
[...]Islamabad flood affected given expired drugs
Bijbehara, Sep 11: The soil is still damp and walls of residential houses moist in Gundi Nawroz area of Bijbehara, a week after the floodwater receded from the marooned area. The people are slowly returning to their houses after the surging water level in Jhelum and Lidder river forced them to migrate to safer places…
[...]Adulterated drugs pose threat to public health
Adulterated medicines, including lifesaving drugs, are flooding the domestic market for lax administration while the country is exporting high-quality pharmaceutical products across the world. Following reports that such medicines are posing threat to public health and putting patients at serious risk, a survey found substandard and counterfeit medicines in many drugstores across the country. By…
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