November 30, 2008	Sunday	Zilhaj 1, 1429

PESHAWAR, Nov 29: The NWFP Health Regulatory Authority (HRA) on Saturday sealed a private laboratory here for non-registration and allegedly providing fake reports and injections to the hepatitis-C patients, said a handout.

The owner of the lab, Hazrat Khan, who is actually a lab assistant, posed himself to be an MBBS doctor in a government hospital, was arrested for his involvement in the unauthorised business.

The HRA team headed by Captain Dr Ahmad Ali inspected Orakzai Welfare Laboratory situated at Mushtaq Abad Chowk Nauthia. The team had received information that the said laboratory was involved in providing fake injections to patients suffering from hepatitis-C.

The team recovered 84 unlabeled injections of hepatitis-C, 100 empty vials of these injections and fake reports of hepatitis-C and B from the lab.

Meanwhile, the HRA has advised the people not to use unmarked medicines supplied by the fake doctors and immediately report such practices to the authority or to the district health officer for necessary action.