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Why you risk death, disability with over the counter medicine

The poisons board has revealed the outcome of almost 40 per cent of adverse drug reaction incidents in the country is not known exposing gaps in patient safety.

A latest pharmacovigilance report by Pharmacy and Poisons Board (PPB) shows out of the 831 cases of Adverse Drug Reaction(ADR) recorded between April and June, the outcome of 322 is unknown.

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