The News, December 29, 2005
Tawana Pakistan
Drugs purchased for schoolgirls were meant for pregnant women
By Ansar Abbasi
ISLAMABAD: The most inhuman aspect of the recently suspended Rs 3.6 billion Tawana Pakistan project was that the substandard micronutrients purchased by the government for 5 to 12-year-old schoolgirls were actually meant for women, particularly having pregnancy, but no head rolled for the lapse.
Almost 100 girls of a school in Pakpattan, one of the 29 poor districts where the project was launched, suffered the side effects. Many even fainted but no action was initiated either against the importer of the medicine or against those who recommended the dose to the innocent girls.
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