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Pakistan says hospitals used drug without regulatory approval, causing vision loss

  • Nearly 70 patients of diabetes across Punjab province suffered vision loss after being administered Avastin medicine
  • The drug is employed to treat cancer, but its off-label use for diabetic retinopathy-related edema is common in Pakistan
By Arab News Pakistan ·

Pakistan investigates local distributors of Roche cancer drug after 12 diabetes patients go blind

By Reuters ·

KSrelief to sponsor 5,000 surgeries to combat blindness, eye diseases in Pakistan 

By Arab News Pakistan ·

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