Expired drugs worth of millions of rupees were recovered from the drugs store of Jinnah Hospital during a raid, here late Saturday night.
According to details, a health department team accompanied by police, upon special directives of Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif conducted a raid at the medical store of Jinnah Hospital.
During search, the raiding team recovered expired medicines worth millions of rupees from the drug store.
The recovered expired drugs included Morphine injections and life saving drugs, among other imported medicine.
Chief Executive of Jinnah Hospital Dr Javed Akram said that all the medicines in the store are of standard and imported. He said that the medicines were donated by US and Britain which are provided to poor people without cost.
Dr Javed added that they had always destroyed the expired medicines.
Large quantity of expired drugs recovered from Jinnah Hospital
