Death toll from PIC drug reaction reaches 104 as another patient die today.
More than hundred heart patients have died after spurious drugs intake provided by Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) and dozens more are in a critical condition in hospital.
Today, a patient named Muhammad Gulab, 60, passed away at Meo Hospital in Lahore.
Punjab Chief Ministers Sharif has ordered autopsies of the drug victims and samples of the suspect drugs have been sent to laboratories for tests.
Meanwhile, the Pakistan Medical Association’s Lahore chapter has asked the Punjab government to establish a drug regulatory authority, change the policy of purchase of free medicines in the public-sector health facilities and upgrade the drug testing laboratory.
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