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.