Fake, expired?: Two arrested for selling bad cardiac injections
Sent on a four-day physical remand.
ISLAMABAD:
Two men arrested on charges of selling spurious injections on Saturday were given to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on a four-day physical remand.
Nayyar Abbas and Muhammad Abid, both residents of Rawalpindi, were remanded by Magistrate Sheikh Habibullah during an FIA probe after they were arrested with the injections at a chemist. According to the contents of the written requested submitted by the FIA to the court, the two worked at a pharmacy in Al-Amin Plaza situated opposite the Military Hospital’s Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology.
The FIA raided the shop on information that expired and fake injections of Tienum 500ml and Merunam 500mg were being sold. A total of 58 injections — each valued at Rs1,100 — of both varieties were seized in the raid, according to investigators. The injections are used to save the lives of cardiac patients, according to a doctor.
An official in the Rawalpindi health department said they shared the information with FIA as the area is not under the control of the health department. Only the FIA could take action against the sale of spurious drugs in cantonment areas, the official said, adding that more arrests are expected.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 29th, 2012.
Two men arrested on charges of selling spurious injections on Saturday were given to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on a four-day physical remand.
Nayyar Abbas and Muhammad Abid, both residents of Rawalpindi, were remanded by Magistrate Sheikh Habibullah during an FIA probe after they were arrested with the injections at a chemist. According to the contents of the written requested submitted by the FIA to the court, the two worked at a pharmacy in Al-Amin Plaza situated opposite the Military Hospital’s Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology.
The FIA raided the shop on information that expired and fake injections of Tienum 500ml and Merunam 500mg were being sold. A total of 58 injections — each valued at Rs1,100 — of both varieties were seized in the raid, according to investigators. The injections are used to save the lives of cardiac patients, according to a doctor.
An official in the Rawalpindi health department said they shared the information with FIA as the area is not under the control of the health department. Only the FIA could take action against the sale of spurious drugs in cantonment areas, the official said, adding that more arrests are expected.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 29th, 2012.