LARKANA: Expired drugs seized

Published November 10, 2003

LARKANA, Nov 9: A health department raided Mangi Medical Store on the premises of the Chandka Medical College Hospital here on Saturday and confiscated physician’s samples and expired medicines.

The additional medical superintendent, Dr Yusuf Katpar, who accompanied the raiding team, told this correspondent that 100 antibiotic injections had also been recovered from the store besides other samples.

He said that an investigation into the matter would ascertain whether the confiscated medicines were government medicines from the CMCH or obtained from elsewhere.—BoC

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