According to a Health Department spokesman, report regarding death of two patients from Jinnah Hospital, three from Services Hospital and one from each LGH, Mayo and Ittefaq Hospitals due to the reaction of the medicines during the last 24 hours has been received while the Health Department also issued guidelines on the treatment of patients.
According to the spokesman, 42 patients affected by reaction of PIC medicines have recovered and have been discharged from various hospitals during the last 24 hours thus raising the total number of recovered patients to 415. According to the information received from various hospitals, 50 patients have been discharged from Jinnah Hospital, 271 from Services Hospital, nine from LGH, 24 from Sir Ganga Ram Hospital and 53 from Mayo Hospital. Meanwhile, 330 patients are still admitted in various hospitals including 54 in Jinnah Hospital, 22 in Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, 162 in Services Hospital, eight in Lahore General Hospital and 66 in Mayo Hospital. Moreover, three patients are under treatment in Allied Hospital Faisalabad and four in Shaikh Zayed Hospital Lahore. According to the report two patients each are under treatment in WAPDA Hospital Lahore and Nishtar Hospital Multan.
GUIDELINES FOR AFFECTED
PATIENTS: The Punjab Health Department has issued guidelines to hospitals for treatment of the affected Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) patients on Wednesday. The guideline has been issued in the light of test reports of a London-based laboratory that declared Isotab as a reactionary medicine. According to the Punjab Health Department guideline, Folic Acid injections should be given after each 6 hours and then after 12 hours after two days to the patients, who have been affected due to reaction of the contaminated drugs. The Health Department further instructed that steroids should not be given to patients so that their lives could be saved.
Eight more deaths, Health Dept issues guidelines
