Call to check substandard medicines in Quetta

QUETTA: Citizens demanded of the Federal and provincial authorities to take measures against substandard medicines which are being sold by medical stores in the city.

In a statement issued here on Sunday, they alleged that over 200 medical stores are selling substandard medicines to the patients in the provincial capital.

Some doctors are also involved in subscribing substandard medicines just for "commission" from the medical stores and medicine companies, they further alleged.

They said that these profiteers are playing with the life of common people.

They demanded of the authority concerned to take action against those medical stores which are selling substandard medicines. (APP)