Eighteen Thousand Pethidine Vials Are Air Lifted To Ease Severe Shortage Of The Injection

Ministry of Health to day air lifted 18,000 vials of essential pain killer injection "pethidine" from India which is currently not available in government hospitals .Although  this stock is much lesser then the annual requirement it will help to ease the shortage for few months ministry officials said. shortage of pethidine vials have occurred after the medical supplies division removed large number of expired pethidine vials from the government hospitals on end of January.due to the shortage of this injection wounded patients and pregnant mothers are facing difficulties hospital sources said.there was much controversy on the shortage of this injection among doctors and even health minister to day announced in parliament that pethidine shortage will be ended after these air lifted vials are distributed to the hospitals
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Hospital doctors charged that some kind of irregularity had happened when purchasing this injection as the ministry has  imported large number of pethidine vials exceeds the required amount.