Delhi Health Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj on Sunday wrote to the health secretary over the supply of 'not of standard quality' drugs in the national capital, urging the latter to procure alternative arrangements.
"On this topic, I wrote several letters to the Health Secretary, I told him to conduct the audit of medicines but he did not do it," Bharadwaj told ANI.
The Drugs Control Administration of Telangana busted an unlicensed drug manufacturing facility belonging to spurious drug offender Kadari Sateesh Reddy at Annarugudem Village, Tallada Mandal, in Khammam.
The Delhi Special Vigilance Department on Sunday wrote to the health secretary over the "Not of Standard Quality" drugs being supplied in Delhi government hospitals and urged to clarify as to how much payment is made till now to companies and manufacturers.
After Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena sought a probe into the quality of drugs supplied in Delhi hospitals, Health Minister Saurabh Bhardwaj questioned the delay in addressing the concern raised by him a month ago regarding negligence of an official in monitoring medicine quality.
"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 LG said.
Six people have been arrested in Maharashtra's Mumbai with nearly 2.6 kilograms of "Kashmiri Charas" and 120 grams of mephedrone (MD) drug seized from their possession in two separate operations, Mumbai Anti-Narcotics Cell officials said on Friday.
The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has recovered drugs worth Rs 13 crore from a woman passenger, arriving from Addis Ababa, at Maharashtra's Mumbai airport, according to an official statement by the DRI on Thursday.
According to Bhanupada Superintendent of Police (SP) Bhanupada Chakraborty, "Acting on confidential information from a reliable source, Police Inspector Shuburanjan Dey in Kadamtala Police Station arrested Rashid Ahmed with 437gm of heroin worth Rs 40 lakh on Wednesday."
In a breakthrough against the drug network, Raipur police have arrested a youth for allegedly peddling cannabis in an ambulance and recovered over 364 kilograms of cannabis (psychotropic drugs from the emergency vehicle in Raipur.