Patients still being treated with Maxlon injection

“As many as 3,000 injections Maxlon/Metoclopramide are available in the pharmacy of the emergency department and doctors are using the said drug to almost every patient visiting with the complaint of vomiting or gastro”, a doctor told this scribe seeking anonymity.

AMS Medical Stores of the hospital confirmed the huge stock of injections Metoclopramide in the emergency department saying that the said drug was approved by the purchase committee of the hospital during a rate contract with the medical company. She claimed that the senior doctors of the hospital were suggesting the patients two injections Marzine and Gravinate due to lack of knowledge as they do not know that these injections were not available in the emergency department.

When asked about a reference book on pharmacology that has clearly stated the serious adverse affects of the Maxlon injection, she said that it was responsibility of the purchase committee or the administration of the hospital which had approved contract in this regard.

When contacted, MS Dr Zafar Ikram said that the purchase committee had approved the drug Maxlon/ Metoclopramide before his appointment as MS and he was not in a position to comment on the issue.