Presiding over a meeting of the Provincial Quality Control Board (PQCB) on Tuesday, Health Secretary Noorul Haq Baloch shuffled drug inspectors in view of their performance, besides setting up a special monitoring cell which will submit a daily report regarding an ongoing campaign.
The meeting observed that many firms in Sindh and Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....
were producing spurious medicines and selling them in Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
and other provinces through their agents.
It took a serious note of doctors of government and private hospitals prescribing to their patients the medicines of companies involved in illegal manufacture of drugs.
Participants of the meeting vowed not to let anyone play with the lfie of people and decided that every possible action would be taken against owners of medical stores involved in the life-threatening business.
PQBC Chairman and Additional Secretary Abdul Rauf Baloch informed the meeting that 138 cases of selling spurious and junk medicines were sent to courts in 2016-17, while over 30 medical stores had been sealed in Quetta during the campaign.