Free medicine at Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) becomes a death sentence. 130 plus deaths. Political mud-slinging. Conspiracy theories. Spurious accusations. Pakistan’s pharmaceutical industry in trouble. Catch up on the news first then read on.
Now that you are up-to-date on this bizarre story here’s a new twist! (Forward to around the 27 second mark)
What’s that now? Mubashir Luqman is on Dunya TV saying Efroze Chemical’s ISOTAB, the alleged killer drug, was not even prescribed to most of the PIC patients who died? Yes read that again. ISOTAB may not have been prescribed to those who died. Wait wasn’t the anti-malarial inadvertently added to ISOTAB conclusively responsible as the cause of death? Talha bin Ayub wrote a few days back in a guest blog on Teeth Maestro that things don’t add up medically and that a overdose from the anti-malarial can be reversed also.
We need to step back and really investigate this whole incident properly without political circuses or lynch mobs baying for blood. For the sake of the 130 plus who passed away. For the sake of the thousands that may die in the future if this entire episode is not used to structure the pharmaceutical industry, to build in safeguards, to strengthen our institutions, and to protect our people.
What do you think of this entire episode and these new developments?
From the Pulpit ... 
you can find more collection of news and links about Efroze and IsoTab at my blog http://atifkamal.blogspot.com
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Its a conspiracy watch Khari Baat of Mubashir Luqman on Feb 14, 2012, and look yourself what doctors say…
http://atifkamal.blogspot.com/2012/02/isotab-was-not-prescribed-to-patients.html
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Isotab is the killer drug. There is no doubt about it. Mubashir Luqman has been wrongly briefed. I would suggest he reads about it before he talks about it and believes people who are using him wrong. Efroze management knew about it and so did the chief of the central laboratory karachi, ubaid, who hid the truth and resulted in so many deaths. A few deaths could have been added in this list but majority of them were due to isotab while a few were added only to get compensation. understading the issue is easy, anyone prescribed 2 tablets but clopidogrel/aspirin was a high risk followed by just 2 tablets of isotab and in this way the list and the risks goes down.
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Ali
How can you say with such conviction that
“Efroze management knew about it and so did the chief of the central laboratory karachi, ubaid, who hid the truth”
Can you shed some light on it?
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Aly, with your background of textile chemistry it should not be a difficult riddle for you to solve. Isotab is checked on the HPLC. The peak of Pyrithamine is before the peak of isosorbide. There is no way that anyone could have missed it. This was about the management. Ubaid knew about it also and he was holding back the news. He was being pressurized by the FIA and the Punjab police but he just would not cooperate. Check his record, his past contacts with them, his foreign trips and the source of his foreign trips. His total salary together with his wife is Rs. 70000 combined. Can anyone with this salary afford to travel to the USA 3 times a year and stay there in hotels and travel around. If i say something I stand by it.
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