There is an illegal dealing while purchasing the pethidine injections as three hundred sixty thousand vials of above injection were removed from the government hospitals after expiring them assistant secretary of the government medical officers association(GMOA) dr.upul gunasekara charged today.addressing a packed press briefing in colombo to day he said that the worth of these removed injection vials are around rs. 1.8 million.due to the removal of these vials there is shortage of this injection at the government hospitals these days.
only two hundred sixty thousand pethidine vials were used at the government hospitals in year 2007 but the health ministry ordered four hundred thousand vials of the injections which is more then the required for the use of 2008 he stressed.purchasing more then the required amount may be the reason behind expiring them before using he pointed out. dr.gunasekera also said that it is sad to see health minister nimal siripala de silva who is also the current chairman of world health organization is offering more drug tenders to the supplier who supplied most number of low quality drugs to hospitals.
He also urged health minister to implement national drug policy to prevent irregularities on purchasing drugs in future
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