Posts Tagged ‘Middle East’

JALALABAD, June 27 (Pajhwok Afghan News): The provincial government has destroyed about two tons of expired medicines in this provincial capital of the eastern Nangarhar province on Tuesday. Officials of the provincial health department said 68 different types of medicines were either seized by the authorities during raids on medical stores or handed over to…

ISLAMABAD: The Health Ministry on Tuesday constituted a ten-member committee to identify fake drugs and unlicensed medical stores operating in the city. The meeting was chaired by Nasir Khan, the health minister, and was attended by the members of Chemists and Druggists Association, led by Hanif Abbasi, a member of the National Assembly (MNA), and…

KUWAIT: A citizen recently told Kuwait local daily, Al-Anba, that when he took his sick baby son to the paediatric department at Farwaniya hospital he was prescribed cough syrup by the hospital's pharmacy that had expired over two months earlier. The man said he could not believe his eyes as he got the medicine from…

The Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Department of Dubai Customs has confiscated significant quantities of counterfeit medicine in coordination with the UAE Ministry of Health, it was announced at a press conference held on May 30, 2006 at the Dubai Customs main building in Bur Dubai. The announcement was made by Mohammed Matar Al Mari, Executive…