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ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Monday took a suo motu notice of the dozens of deaths caused by counterfeit medicines supplied by the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) to heart patients in Lahore, DawnNews reported.
Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani would take up the matter on Tuesday. Notices have been issued to the attorney general and to the provincial health secretary in this regard.
Meanwhile, Religious Affairs Minister Khursheed Shah on Monday placed the entire responsibility of the deaths on the Punjab chief minister.
Speaking to media representatives in Lahore, Shah questioned the holding of 17 ministries by Shahbaz Sharif and wondered why the chief minister could not find 17 people in his party who would be capable of heading the said ministries.
He held responsible Sharif for deaths of 350 people from the dengue virus and said that now more than 100 heart patients had lost there lives due to his incompetence.
Shah said that drug regulation was now a responsibility of the provincial governments after the passage of 18th Amendment.
Regarding Mansoor Ijaz's plea for recording his testimony in the memo case abroad, Shah said that the Supreme Court was not a mobile court which would go abroad to record statements.
