Toll doubles in spurious drug deaths case in Pakistan
January 24, 2012 13:08
Spurious drugs provided to cardiac patients by a state-run hospital in Pakistan's Punjab have claimed 67 lives -- more than double the figure initially given by provincial authorities.
Punjab Health Secretary Jehanzeb Khan confirmed the total number of deaths while responding to a journalist's query yesterday.
Earlier, the Punjab government had confirmed the deaths of only 28 cardiac patients registered with Lahore's Punjab Institute of Cardiology.