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DCA seizes 2 lakh RL saline bottles
In the wake of botched-up cataract surgeries that led to five patients losing vision, the Drug Control Administration (DCA) has launched a drive by seizing 2 lakh Ringer’s Lactate (RL) saline solution bottles. The RL saline solution was supplied Haseeb Pharmaceuticals.
Hyderabad: In the wake of botched-up cataract surgeries that led to five patients losing vision, the Drug Control Administration (DCA) has launched a drive by seizing 2 lakh Ringer’s Lactate (RL) saline solution bottles. The RL saline solution was supplied Haseeb Pharmaceuticals.
The DCA officials said the value of the seized saline bottles was estimated to be Rs 10 crore. A total of 93 batches had been seized across Telangana. In the meantime, the Telangana State Government Doctors Association (TGDA) came out strongly against the Telangana State Medical Services and Infrastructure Development Corporation (TSMSIDC) for supplying “substandard quality of saline bottles and demanded that the Corporation be scrapped.
Highlights:
- The Ringer’s Lactate saline was supplied by Haseeb Pharmaceuticals
- Even as investigation into failed eye surgeries in Sarojinidevi Eye Hospital continues, doctors blame TSMSIDC for purchasing ‘substandard saline’
Doctors questioned inaction on the part of the DCA for over a week. The doctors circulated a video footage to hit the nail on the head that the doctors had withdrawn a batch of saline bottles Niloufer Hospital and not the DCA.
Doctors alleged nexus between TSMSIDC, DCA and Pharma company. Dr B Narahari, TGDA State Vice President, said, “The quality control medical officer's post is lying vacant for the past six years at TSMSIDC. There is a need to restructure or even scrap the Corporation.” The TGDA members argue if it was the negligence on part of doctors, all patients would have suffered. It was unfair to blame doctors.”
The Telangana Doctors Forum (TDF) also demanded that strict action be taken against the pharmaceutical company and blacklist it. Dr A Gopal Kishan, Chairman, TDF said, “We made a representation against the then APHMSIDC in 2013 as it had turned into a commission agency and demanded that it be scrapped.”
TDF members said there was a need to revert to the old system of authorising the superintendents of hospitals to purchase medicines and equipment. An external committee, an internal committee constituted by Sarojini Devi Eye Hospital and the Lokayukta that took suo motu cognizance of the incident and were investigating into the incident.
