INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
DHANGADI, MARCH 25A hospital in Kailali has faced action for selling date-expired
Nawajeevan Hospital of Dhangadi sub-metropolis-4, Ratopul, was fined after the kin of a minor undergoing treatment at the hospital moved the
Office of Commerce, Supply, and Customer Protection of Kailali against the hospital for selling date-expired medicines.
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According to
Commerce, Supply and Customer Protection Office, Kailali, acting Chief Lalit Prasad Panta; the hospital was fined 200,000 rupees and warned
against such negligence in the future
The action was taken by Industry, Commerce and Customer Welfare Protection Directorate of the province.
Dr Niraj Aryal of
the hospital accused the patient's kin of forcefully taking the medicine away from the hospital, but added he had over 100 staffers at the
hospital and so couldn't take responsibility of each and every staff member."We have a total of 104 staffers at the hospital, so I can't
take responsibility of each of them, but we have warned the staffers involved in selling the date-expired drug," he said
The doctor, however, conceded that the hospital was fined upon the finding that it had sold date-expired medicine.A version of this article
appears in the print on March 26, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.
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