Medicos distribute expired medicines in Ahmedabad

AHMEDABAD: Complaints of district medical staff members, who have been engaged for distribution of medicines and attending to fever cases within Covid-19 containment zones of Ahmedabad city, distributing medicines with expiry date to sick people has emerged.
The issue happened in a containment zone of Gomtipur — Jethiben Chawl, Mansuri ni Khadawali Chawl and Nadiyawali Chawl — where medical official is alleged to have distributed antibiotic Cifadroxil tablets carrying an expiry date of March 2020, and Dextrose IP that had expired in May 2018, to patients reporting of fever and weakness.The Dextrose IP packet had hardened and read it was meant for Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) health department procurement.
According to eyewitness accounts the medical officer usually comes in a car carrying a Devbhoomi Dwarka registration number, calls out to people in the chawl and distributes medicines while sitting in the car. A jobless diamond worker, Bhanuprasad Parmar, a resident of Jethiben Chawl, said that a doctor and two nurses came in the car on Saturday morning, with a Devbhoomi Dwarka registration number also and asked if someone needs medicines for fever, cough, cold or weakness.
A senior AMC health official told TOI that an enquiry has been initiated.