Leader of Opposition in the Delhi Vidhan Sabha, Vijender Gupta, on Saturday raised questions against the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Delhi government over the matter of alleged supply of sub-standard medicines to hospitals and dispensaries under its jurisdiction.
The LOP demanded to know which agency was responsible for ensuring quality assurance and what it was doing to ensure that quality drugs and medicines were being supplied to government hospitals.
“Delhi government hospitals are being supplied sub-standard medicines which plays with the lives of the patients. Quality check agency is sleeping. A distributor has himself admitted to having supplied 20,000 strips of sub-standard medicine for heart patients to GB Pant Hospital,” Mr. Gupta alleged.
Distributor’s letter
The Rohini legislator argued that there may be more such cases of supply of sub-standard medicines to Delhi government hospitals which also raise questions about the functioning of the Central Procurement Agency of the Delhi government.
“The distributor, who supplied the medicines to the hospitals, has himself written a letter saying that use of sub-standard medicines supplied by him should be stopped. He also wants to take back the remaining stock of medicines supplied,” he claimed.
Isosorbide Dinitrate is a life saving drug which is used in emergency cases for transferring heart patients from one place to another. This medicine is also used as a vaccine in operation theatres to save lives of heart patients. One can only imagine how risky such a life saving drug can be for heart patients, the LOP argued.
He demanded that Lieutenant-Governor Anil Baijal order an investigation by an independent investigation agency to see what the quality control agency has been doing regarding this “negligence” by the government.
