Drug Safety Alerts
ATTENTION (ALERT)!
Tablet: Diclosave 50mg (Diclofenac Sodium 50mg)
Description: White colored, round shaped biconvex enteric coated tablet
Batch No. 17L471
Manufactured by: Medisave Pharmaceuticals Lahore, Pakistan
Background: Provincial Drug Inspector collected the sample from Benazir Bhutto Hospital Rawalpindi and sent it to the Punjab Drug Testing Laboratory (DTL) for testing and analysis.
Problem: This product failed to comply the stated specifications of disintegration test. Therefore, DTL has declared it SUB-STANDARD.
Recommendation: This product does not meet appropriate quality standards and specifications. This product may fail to produce desired effects and may be potentially harmful. All concerned are intimated to keep avoid in procurement, dispensation, promotion, sale and use of this batch of pharmaceutical product.
Note. Healthcare professionals and consumers are encouraged to report adverse events or side effects related to the use of any pharmaceutical product to Provincial Drugs Control Unit Punjab through mentioned URL: mss.punjab.gov.pk/reporttgrp
Primary & Secondary Healthcare Department,
Govt. of the Punjab