Two patients among the victims of a fake drug produced by a northeast China's pharmaceutical company are in critical condition in south China's Guangdong Province, a local hospital reported Wednesday.

"The two patients, both surnamed Chen, have fallen into complete coma, and doctors are making all efforts to save their lives," said a doctor with the Third Hospital affiliated to Sun Yat-sen University in the provincial capital Guangzhou.

So far, nine people have died in Guangdong after using the fake Armillarisni A injection made by the Qiqihar No. 2 Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., a private drug maker in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.

(Xinhua News Agency May 25, 2006)