Patients still being treated with Maxlon injection

“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).

The Mayo Hospital emergency department which has a huge stock of the alternate injection, Maxlon/Metoclopramide, was administering the said injections instead of Marzine or Gravinate.