LAHORE: Police in Lahore has arrested six men including two doctors, and two medicine coordinators in connection with the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) contaminated medicine case, Express News reported on Wednesday.
Sources said that an investigative team took six men in to custody including two doctors on the panel of PIC medicine procurement committee, two distributors including Tariq and Musharraf, PIC store keeper Zulfiqar, and pharmacist yousuf.
The names of the two doctors arrested have not been revealed.
According to sources, the arrested men denied having bought IsoTab medicine of batch 093. However, investigations discovered that their records had been tampered. Some of the contaminated medicines too were recovered from their store.
An FIR under sections 468, 471, and 420 have been registered. Further deliberations are underway to on whether those arrested should also be charged under sections 319 and 302.
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The first question is what about the manufacturers? What is the role of district drug inspectors and Medical Officer? Is the license of the manufacturing company cancelled? Is the comitte of competent persons established to identify the root cause? This seems to be a direct cse of mix-ups and cross-contamination. Pakistan neds to strictly look into its drugs and cosmetics act and am end good manufacturing practices if necessary.
The person purchased this medicine is not accountable?
Is there any kind of quality testing in Pakistan. Can manufacturers produce whatever they want and put it in the market.
What about the negligent company personnel. Obviously the contamination started at the factory level. These guys are under the lower end of the procurement Process and have nothing to do with manufacturing of the drugs.
All the records of the company must be seized and a thorough investigation at the cost of the company should be done. These medicines were exported to other places as well.
Politics should stay out of it, if credibility is to be maintained.