Clarification of United Hospital Limited
United Hospital Limited has sent the following clarification after a mobile court of Rab fined it Tk 20 lakh on Wednesday.
Rab had raised an issue on a document of Poly Pharma, dated year 2014. The drug vendor supplied medicines to the hospital back then although such medicines were not found in the United Hospital pharmacy during the raid.
After 2014, the hospital authorities did not purchase any medicine from that vendor, as before that, the Director General of Drug Administration (DGDA) could not nominate any vendor to supply these lifesaving medicines. Since then, the United Hospital authorities have been purchasing such medicines, which are not manufactured in the country, from Jazz Corporation as nominated by DGDA.
Hence, displaying an old document, which does not hold true now, defames the current goods storage of the United Hospital pharmacy. The reagents found in the lab had expired only few days back and those were waiting to be thrown off.
The jars of time-expired sodium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide and potassium chloride were almost full. But, those were not used at all for the last few years.
In modern scientific lab practice, different reagents in microbiology lab are procured and utilised as “ready to use”; hence the above mentioned chemicals have no chance to be used currently as alleged by Rab.
However, the hospital authorities believe that physical removal of those jars from the lab should have been done timely; this is a correctable omission committed.
But, some of the short-dated reagents and sutures materials, confiscated during the drive, were with usable date limit.
Being the lone ISO 15189 accredited pathology laboratory of the country, the United Hospital has never compromised with using time-expired reagents.
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