LAHORE, Jan 26: The reaction of suspected drugs claimed lives of another three cardiac patients on Thursday raising the death toll to 103.

Muhammad Asghar of Baghbanpura died at Mayo Hospital and Abdul Rauf at Services Hospital while another expired at a hospital in Faisalabad.

Sources said Allah Ditta, 53, of Nishatabad died at Allied Hospital, Faisalabad, while Kaneez Bibi of Mandi Bahauddin and Rasheed Ahmed of Chak 199-JB, Samundari were being treated there. All three patients had taken medicines from the Punjab Institute of Cardiology, Lahore. The hospital administrations have retrieved medicines from them.

Meanwhile, another 25 patients were shifted to various hospitals of the provincial capital with similar complaints of drugs reaction. Of them 13 were admitted to Services Hospital, five to Jinnah Hospital, two to Lahore General Hospital and others to Mayo Hospital.

According to a spokesman for the Health Department, 119 patients affected by reaction of PIC medicines have recovered and discharged from various hospitals during the last 24 hours. He said 29 patients were discharged from Jinnah Hospital, 40 from Services, three from LGH and 25 from Mayo Hospital.

He said 267 patients were being treated in various hospitals -- 48 in Jinnah Hospital, 19 in Ganga Ram, 126 in Services, nine in General Hospital, 63 in Mayo Hospital and two patients in Allied Hospital, Faisalabad. He said the death of 79 patients was confirmed due to the reaction of medicines.—Staff Reporter