PESHAWAR, Aug 24 :Director General Drug Control and Pharmacy Services, Health Department Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has constituted a task force against the sale and production of counterfeit, substandard and unregistered medicines across the province.

The task force would comprise of Chief Drug Inspector Abbottabad, Imran Ullah, Drug Inspector Peshawar Dr Safiullah, Drug Inspector Buner Muhammad Sajid and district drug officers concerned.

The task force with the assistance of local police and district administration would conduct raids on medicine factories and drug stores suspicious of producing and selling counterfeit and unregistered medicine and take them to the task.