{"id":23066,"date":"2026-06-26T18:04:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T13:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/?p=23066"},"modified":"2026-06-26T18:04:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T13:04:03","slug":"do-not-use-this-medicine-punjab-issues-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/?p=23066","title":{"rendered":"Do not use this medicine, Punjab issues alert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Directorate of Drugs Control (DDC) of Punjab has issued a prompt alert for an alternative medicine following laboratory testing that found a herbal medicinal product contained an undeclared pharmaceutical ingredient that could pose serious health risks.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Punjab Drug Testing Laboratory reported that the product was adulterated with an undisclosed ingredient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an alert issued by the Directorate of Drugs Control (DDC) Punjab, the product,&nbsp;<strong>Capsule Cheston (Al-Sehat)<\/strong>, was found to contain&nbsp;<strong>\u2018Dexamethasone\u2019,&nbsp;<\/strong>a prescription corticosteroid, despite being marketed as an alternative medicine product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Directorate of Drugs Control (DDC) of Punjab has issued a prompt alert for an alternative medicine following laboratory testing that found a herbal medicinal product contained an undeclared pharmaceutical ingredient that could pose serious health risks. The Punjab Drug Testing Laboratory reported that the product was adulterated with an undisclosed ingredient. In an alert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","inline_featured_image":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"no","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_3859443944190656_798604363342440":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[{"account":"facebook_3859443944190656_798604363342440","service":"facebook","timestamp":1782479094,"status":"success"}],"rop_publish_now_status":"done","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-pakistan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23068,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23066\/revisions\/23068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}