During late January 2012, a fake medicine crisis at the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) hospital in the Lahore region of Punjab, Pakistan which claimed the lives of over 100 heart patients.
According to various reports, the incident involved patients who had been receiving treatment at the hospital and had been prescribed with counterfeit antihypertensive medicines.[1] The Federal Investigation Agency carried out an inquiry into the incident, and identified the factory of Efroze Chemicals in Karachi as the producer of the Isotab tablets contaminated with pyrimethamine.[2] The factory was sealed, and the names of the factory owners were put on the Exit Control List (ECL).
^"About 100 people have died from spurious antihypertensives in Lahore". Thenews.com.pk. 2012-01-24. Retrieved 2012-01-31.
^WHO says drug caused PIC deaths
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