Free Medicine: Mega Pharmaceuticals unsealed

Medicines manufactured at the Lahore based company yielded results devoid of contamination and up to the mark.

Authorities in Lahore have reopened the tablet manufacturing section of Mega Pharmaceuticals after tests on its medicines returned clear, Express News reported late on Tuesday night.

Mega Pharmaceuticals, one of the drug manufacturers who had supplied medicines to the Punjab Institute of Cardiology where apparently a contaminated batch of prescription medicines caused adverse reaction among the patients causing as many as 700 people to fall severely ill while claiming the lives of at least 107 patients.

Investigating the deaths, the Punjab health department and the Federal Investigation Authority – on orders from the Ministry of Interior, had sealed the manufacturing units of three pharmaceutical companies including Mega Pharmaceuticals on January 23.

Samples of medicine collected were sent to labs in Pakistan as well as abroad. However, when these results came back with an all clear, the health department issued directives for the the manufacturing unit of Mega Pharmaceuticals to be unsealed.