Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Wednesday announced that an enquiry along scientific lines would be conducted into the deaths that resulted because of the consumption of toxic cough syrup. He further said that those found guilty would be awarded due punishment.
Presiding over a high-level meeting to review the incident, he said that the Punjab government had already sent the samples of the syrup and other evidence to the Forensic Lab and Drug Testing Laboratory (DTL).
Addressing the meeting, the CM said that death of 18 people due to consumption of the cough syrup Tyno was a tragic incident and directed the authorities concerned to obtain the test reports of the samples of the syrup and other evidence from the Forensic Lab and DTL as soon as possible.
Moreover, he ordered DIG investigation to personally hold the enquiry and directed that the incident should be reviewed from every angle and stern action should be taken against the persons involved.
At the same time, Shahbaz took notice of the incident of a baby getting bitten by a rodent at Holy Family Hospital in Rawalpindi and ordered stern action against the hospital administration. Condemning the incident, he said that the hospital administration would be held responsible since it was the duty of the hospital staff to maintain cleanliness standards in the hospital.
He ordered an immediate transfer of the medical superintendent and the principal of Rawalpindi Medical Hospital.
He also set up a high-level committee to be headed by Special Assistant Khawaja Salman Rafique for introducing institutional reforms and improvement of the efficiency of Health Department. The committee would submit its report within four weeks, he added.
