Tag: Deaths

The defective drugs inquiry tribunal on Friday recorded the statement of Chairman Chief Minister’s Inspection Team Najeem Saeed in the PIC deaths case. He submitted...

Non communicable diseases including stroke are the leading killers in low and middle income countries like Pakistan. A cross-sectional survey from a multiethnic transitional Pakistani...

Investigators probing the deaths of about 150 Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) patients arrested 13 men on Friday. Sources in Investigation Wing of the...

NATO’s top commander in Afghanistan, General John Allen, said on Saturday he was recalling all staff working at ministries in the Afghan capital after...

With the Punjab government completely silent on the issue, patients became the real victim as the Punjab Young Doctors Association (YDA) kept the outpatient...

The Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) drug-death episode has taken another surprising turn as the doctors allege that nearly 55 percent of patients who...

People across Pakistan are thinking twice before taking medication after the recent deaths of more than 120 patients who were prescribed contaminated heart medication...

The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday sought reply from the Punjab government over not compensating the victim families of drugs reaction deaths on...

The Supreme Court (SC) on Monday ordered to establish a Drug Regularory Authority (DRA) by February 17, a private TV channel reported. The SC expressed...

When floods engulfed Sindh and hundreds of thousands were rendered homeless and more than a thousand died, there was assistance not only offered by...

Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Friday vowed to probe the faulty test reports by local laboratories in the spurious drugs case. Speaking at a...

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that action against fake drug producers has been kicked off in the light of a Britain laboratory...

The Punjab Institute of Cardiology is one of the premier cardiac care hospitals of Pakistan, which has served hundreds of thousands of poor citizens,...

Two more heart patients, after consuming the suspicious medicines, lost their lives Tuesday, pushing the overall death toll to 121 in Punjab. The string of...

Death toll in the mysterious medicine reaction has climbed to 119 in the past three weeks as two more patients died on Monday. According to...

The Young Doctors Association (YDA), after successful negotiations with the Punjab government, called off its strike against the suspension and transfer of senior doctors...

Young Doctors Association (YDA) has announced to observe strike against suspension and transfer of senior doctors in the alleged medicines reaction death scam. According to...