KULOB, December 8, Asia-Plus - 5,952 packages of fake medicines (785 items) have been confiscated from chemist’s shops in the Kulob zone of Khatlon and destroyed over the past eleven months, Nabijon Shamolov, head of the Kulob branch of the Republican Medicine Examination Center, said.  

According to him, of those 5,952 packages, 4,536 contained overdue medicine and 1,326 contained fake medicines.  

Shamolov noted that 2,570 packages had been confiscated from chemist’s shops located in the territory of hospitals.  “In all, we have inspected more than 250 chemist’s shops in the region,” Shamolov said, adding that as a result of the inspections, 1,200 kilograms of fake medicines have been destroyed in January-November 2006.