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| Normal saline rejected by Medical Supplies Corporation accepted by SMGS | | Where is Quality Health-Care in JK? | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
srinagar, Mar 26: People at helm are expected to pay utmost attention to the health sector in the state and ensure that nobody takes the patients admitted in government and private sector for a ride. However, the same is not witnessed, at least as on date.
At least three batches of normal saline (sodium chloride injection) rejected by the verification board are being used by the authorities in Shri Maharaja Gulab Singh (SMGS) hospital thus putting lives of patients to risk. The batches of normal saline were found to be sub-standard and as such hospital authorities not to lift supplies of the specified batches of saline.
However, it has been learnt from sources that the authorities at SMGS hospital in Jammu lifted these batches of normal saline. The hospital authorities virtually damned the directions issued with regard to non-lifting of normal saline. Only the hospital authorities can spell out the reason as why they accepted the sub-standard supply of this normal saline.
The batches of normal saline rejected by the officials of health department were 16JK02P015, 16JK02P017 and 16JK02P023. These batches of normal saline were manufactured in February and March 2016. They are supposed to expire on December 28, 2018 and February 2019 respectively.
"The Board of Verification has rejected the above quantity of supply with the plea that the drugs do not correspond with proper polythene wrapping," writes an official of the health department. The official is entrusted with the responsibility of quality check of medicines supplies to the hospital.
The medicines are supplied by Jammu & Kashmir Medical Supplies Corporation (JKMSCL). The views of this official were corroborated by yet another official of the department. The officials put on their signature on the verification report on November 18, 2017.
A day before i.e., on November 17, 2017 a letter was shot to the Managing Director, JKMSCL asking him to lift the stock of rejected medicines. In the letter it has been written that the suppliers of medicines have failed to lift back their rejected items from the Regional Drug Warehouse, Barzulla despite of giving them ample time and communications made to do so.
The suppliers mentioned in the letter were M/S. Warden Surgicals Co Pvt Ltd, M/S. Denis Chem Lab Ltd, M/S. New Alpine Traders, M/S. Winner Pharmaceuticals and M/S. Ascent Meditech Limited (supplies through M/S. Bhardwaj Agencies). The normal saline was supplied by M/S. Denis Chem Lab Ltd.
"As soon as verification report was sent to the hospital authorities' majority of the hospitals rejected the supply of normal saline. However, for the reasons best known to them the SMGS hospital authorities in Jammu accepted the supply and same is being used at the hospital these days," said sources. |
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