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Updated: Dec 23, 2023 18:18 IST

New Delhi [India], December 23 (ANI): After Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena sought a probe into the quality of drugs equipped in Delhi hospitals, Health Minister Saurabh Bhardwaj questioned the delay in addressing the priority raised by him a month in the past relating to negligence of an official in monitoring drugs high quality.
Earlier within the day, LG Saxena beneficial a CBI inquiry into “Not of standard quality” medication being equipped in Delhi authorities hospitals.
“I can’t test the medicines myself, I can give directions and I have done that, I have said that one official is not doing his work properly and action must be taken against him but the Centre is not ready to do that,” Minister Bhardwaj stated.
The well being minister revealed that he had penned a letter to the Lieutenant Governor (LG), looking for a radical investigation into the difficulty.
“It’s been a month, and I have written a letter to LG but he was not interested in conducting a probe,” he added.

The minister additional questioned the accused official persevering with to carry the place whereas urging his removing.
“If wrong medicines are coming and people’s lives are in danger, why is that person still in his seat? He should have been removed by now,” the Minister outlined.
The Minister’s workplace earlier within the day highlighted a press release issued on March 21 this 12 months giving instructions for an audit of medicines procured and an motion taken report requested from the Health Secretary dated July 24, 2023.
However, no response got here from the Health Secretary, the assertion added. In a letter to Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar directing him for the investigation, LG Saxena acknowledged, “I am, to say the least, anguished at the fact that lakhs of hapless people and patients are being supplied fake drugs that have failed quality standard tests.”
“These drugs, procured by the Central Procurement Agency (CPA) under Delhi Health Service (DHS) were supplied to Delhi Government Hospitals and may also have been supplied to the Mohalla Clinics…. these have failed and are categorized as Not of Standard Quality,” the letter talked about. (ANI)