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Balasore, April 9: Lakhs of rupees are being spent for free distribution of saline bottles to patients but these bottles are gathering dust in the storeroom of the district headquarters hospital.
The saline bottles are lying scattered around inside the room in an unsafe manner. Black ants were found inside some saline bottles while some were leaking due to cuts by rats. Such lack of care for free saline bottles has come to the fore amid allegations that the bottles are being supplied to private clinics.
Sources said the health department supplies saline bottles to hospitals. During 2012-13 fiscal, the district had received 6,49, 925 saline bottles.
Of them, 4,33, 307 bottles have been sent to various hospitals, leaving 2, 16, 618 saline bottles in the central storeroom.
In 2013-14 and 2014-15, as saline bottles were in adequate stock, they were not supplied to the district. The saline bottles that are in stock now will expire between December 2015 and February 2016.
Now, question is being raised over the quality of the saline bottles. How far they will be safe for patients?
Locals sought to know who are responsible for the saline bottles worth lakhs of rupees getting rotted.
When asked about the issue, additional district medical officer(ADMO) Sashank Shekhar Choudhury explained that there has been lack of store houses for saline bottles.
The state government has been intimated to make arrangements for another storeroom, he added.
The ADMO claimed that some saline
bottles got damaged during stocking and
dispatching to other places.