Bengaluru, May 25: A surprise inspection on the warehouse of the Karnataka State Drugs Logistics and Warehousing Society in the city late in the night on Tuesday by the Minister for Health and Family Welfare U?T?Khader revealed that drugs worth Rs 10 crores have been wasted as they were kept beyond their expiry period.
“Some of the drugs lying in the warehouse were 15 years old. They have not been disposed as per the Drug Disposal Rules. The warehouse has been directed to start disposing the drugs as soon as possible,” the minister said.
The minister took note of the documents and medicine inventory and the transactions that have taken place in the past. The Warehousing Society was later directed to ensure proper computerisation of documents.
The surprise inspection was conducted after a regional television channel had claimed that drugs worth Rs 100 crore were left unattended in the godown.
The minister refuted these allegations and clarified that the present additional director was not responsible for the mismanagement as he took charge only recently.
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Good Job sir
Karnataka never seen such developments in health department so far. It look forward more and more health schemes.
The Minister should implement a procedure, whereby the medicines should be used up according to date of expiry. Every month there should be an audit and expired medicines, should be written off. The concerned people should be held responsible for such losses as it is possible that medicines are being procured without any proper process. The funds may be misused.
Such news and information very rarely published in other famous electronic media.
Jai Ho UTK
Y so late to visit .....it's 15 yrs old.....whr wr u all these days
I see only ONE leader who is active in looking after affairs of the Society ...
Recognize how a leader should work rather we people are voting only on the statements given by our foolish leaders who deviate the real issues of our Society...
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