Patients still being treated with Maxlon injection

LAHORE - Despite the fact that four-member inquiry committee in its recommendations has opined that there was strong possibility that the 19-year-old girl might have died due to Maxlon injection, the Mayo Hospital, emergency department doctors are still treating the patients with the same injection.
Martindale, the reference book on pharmacology, also clearly states that the Maxlon can produce serious adverse affects including extra-pyrmidal side effects leading to the death of patients, especially those between the ages of 16 to 20.
It is pertinent to mention here that FSc student Sadaf Munir who had died due to the reaction of the said Maxlon injection was 19 years old.
A hospital source said that the emergency department of the Mayo Hospital had purchased the low-priced injection, Maxlon/Metoclopramide, in bulk as an alternate of injections Marzine or Gravinate used for vomiting.
“If the hospital administration is still unmoved and continuing with the practice of administering this fatal injection, it should not at least be used for the patients between the ages of 16 and 20”, a doctor at Mayo Hospital said, commenting on bad effects of the controversial injection.
On Saturday, the doctors administered the injection Maxlon/Metoclopramide to a close relative of the former governor Punjab admitted in the AVH ward of the hospital. Similarly, two patients - Muhamamd Aslam and Sugran Bibi - suffering from gastro were administered the same drug in the hospital emergency department the same day.
As the City is in the grip of the seasonal disease, a large number of gastro patients are visiting emergency departments of the public hospitals with complaints of vomiting. The consultants are suggesting the patients two injections of Marzine and Gravinate (both having same ingredients).