Indian ingredient led to cough syrup deaths: Pakistan official

[Ayush]

Pakistan should really think about this now.

ya,u shud think about keeping a check on your manufacturing firms.
@KRAIT,well said man.

 

[Hellraiser007]

This is Like Blaming Japan for High speed train accidents kn China,since China used some of the Japanese micro Chips with out knowing the full specs of them.

 

[xyxmt]

dextromethorphan is used in Vicks too.

he is not blaming it on dextromethorphan, he is blaming it on dextromethorphan imported from India.
nice try to save your lazy a$$ mr Health official

I watched a reporter interviewing few other who were hospitalized, and all of them said the drank the whole bottle, they were looking to get high on cheap.

 

[kingkobra]

Dextromethorphan is very common cough suppressant..I do not think it has anything to do with deaths...

Following hints from article must not be ignored.

1.Twenty people, most of them drug addicts, died in Lahore in November after drinking a cough syrup named Tyno.

2.Qureshi said if Cheema's claim is accepted, the cough syrups should have caused many more deaths than those reported so far.

Or it is possible that per bottle amount of dextromethorphan was willingly increased to 7.8 ml.



Read post # 15.

Or is it possible that more amount of cough syrup was consumed by these patients 20 of whom were drug addicts?

 

[KRAIT]

This is Like Blaming Japan for High speed train accidents kn China,since China used some of the Japanese micro Chips with out knowing the full specs of them.

More apt is blaming Russia for all the people killed by AK-47, even their own soldiers. By this reason, Russia is the biggest supporter of terrorism.

@kingkobra Hello, fellow snake. Me Krait. Happy New Year.

 

[Babbar-Khalsa]

Indian ingredient led to cough syrup deaths: Pakistan official

LAHORE: Days after an adulterated cough syrup caused the death of 40 people, a senior Pakistani official has contended that an ingredient imported from India to make the medicine was to blame, a claim described as "ridiculous" by the drug manufacturing association here.

Nisar Ahmad Cheema, the director general of Health of Punjab province, told reporters that dextromethorphan - an active ingredient imported from India - was found to be responsible for the cough syrup-related deaths in Lahore and Gujranwala districts.

Twenty people, most of them drug addicts, died in Lahore in November after drinking a cough syrup named Tyno.

Another 20 people died in Gujranwala and Toba Tek Singh districts in December.

The cough syrups linked to the deaths were made with dextromethorphan, officials said.

"Samples taken from victims in Lahore show a very high concentration - 4.1 mg/ml to 7.8 mg/ml - of dextromethorphan," Cheema said.

A concentration of 3 mg/ml is considered lethal, he said. Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association vice-chairman Nasir Qureshi, however, described Cheema's claim as "ridiculous", saying over 65 local and multinational pharmaceutical companies were using dextromethorphan in their cough syrups.

These medicines are available in abundance in markets across Pakistan, he said.

Qureshi said if Cheema's claim is accepted, the cough syrups should have caused many more deaths than those reported so far.

Investigations into the deaths had revolved around the ingredient purchased by two pharmaceutical companies from India, he said.

Indian ingredient led to cough syrup deaths: Pakistan official - The Times of India

What a funny and pathetic explanation from an official from our neighbourhood . They are just masqurading their inability to save innocents lives and putting all blame on their bigger neighbour.

 

[Hellraiser007]

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More apt is blaming Russia for all the people killed by AK-47, even their own soldiers. By this reason, Russia is the biggest supporter of terrorism.

@kingkobra Hello, fellow snake. Me Krait. Happy New Year.

These are tricks used by some wicked people in Pakistan to deny MFN status to India or to get leverage in the talks.

India do have lot of markets to venture into, like African countries and ASEAN.

 

[notsuperstitious]

he is not blaming it on dextromethorphan, he is blaming it on dextromethorphan imported from India.
nice try to save your lazy a$$ mr Health official

I watched a reporter interviewing few other who were hospitalized, and all of them said the drank the whole bottle, they were looking to get high on cheap.

Next time ask them to drink whole bottles of cough syrups containing dextromethorphan imported from China. That way you will not feel bad when they die and those who die will also go to jannat.

 

[OrionHunter]

LAHORE: Days after an adulterated cough syrup caused the death of 40 people, a senior Pakistani official has contended that an ingredient imported from India to make the medicine was to blame, a claim described as "ridiculous" by the drug manufacturing association here.

Next some clown will say that the cyclonic storm that hit Pakistan was the result of a massive collective fart by the Indians that caused it! This will be followed by another clown who'll insist on taking up this matter with the UN Security Council. Still others may want to take it up with the International Court of Justice! Bl00dy farting Bhartis!! Jeeez!

 

[qasimali]

Agreed with some Indian fellows, there should be a proper check on manufacturing companies too and if such ingredient is really caused too many deaths so why we imported it or while importing dextromethorphan, why didn't we checked the quality.

 

[funtoosh]

if you import poison in india used for a specific purpose and use for another purpose then what can I say.
India imports petroleum from Arabia, but if instead of petrol pump its given as medicine, then surely people will die. So we cant say that arabian ingredient killed indians, which is technically true, but semantically wrong.

 

[KRAIT]

Next some clown will say that the cyclonic storm that hit Pakistan was the result of a massive collective fart by the Indians that caused it! This will be followed by another clown who'll insist on taking up this matter with the UN Security Council. Still others may want to take it up with the International Court of Justice! Bl00dy farting Bhartis!! Jeeez!

Butterfly effect in action. One Indian farts in Rajasthan, a typhoon is created in Baluchistan.

 

[funtoosh]

Butterfly effect in action. One Indian farts in Rajasthan, a typhoon is created in Baluchistan.

one indian farts in rajasthan, then a typhoons is created in faraway BL. So imagine is the same indian farts in baluchistan, what the effect will be. LOL

 

[KRAIT]

one indian farts in rajasthan, then a typhoons is created in faraway BL. So imagine is the same indian farts in baluchistan, what the effect will be. LOL

Sand storm in Afghanistan.

 

[kingkobra]

More apt is blaming Russia for all the people killed by AK-47, even their own soldiers. By this reason, Russia is the biggest supporter of terrorism.

@kingkobra Hello, fellow snake. Me Krait. Happy New Year.

Happy new year KRAIT Bhai