Bandipora Aug 16 (KNS): Soon after the media reports after an expensive medicines, including Linezolid and Paracetamol infusions, were found burned along the Bandipora-Sopore road in north Kashmir locals residents raised questions on who removed the remaining drugs from the spot if authorities disowned it.
After a media report, in the night hours unknown persons removed the remaining medicines, adding further mystery to the situation.
Authorities initially denied any responsibility, with local medical officers asserting that they had not received such a supply since 2020.
An eye witness Abdul Rehaman Darvwho spoke to media earlier also, when these medicines were found destroyed in his village said that after media reports unknown persons removed the remaining medicines in night hours.
"We were shocked to see these medicines were removed, if the health department disowns it then removed it. No one from any other district can usually travel that distance to throw it here or remove it in night hours," he laminated.
Another local resident Abdul Rehaman, said that throwing these medicines in front of school gates can lead to serious disease in school going childrens. "It was routine that some bottles of infusion are dumped here, they are now aware that people will raise their voices but who will take the responsibility of medicines burned and removed from the spot,".
The local community, shocked by this waste of valuable medical supplies, expressed anger and confusion as they struggled to access basic healthcare in the district.
Residents questioned why these medicines were not distributed among the population or had not been destroyed properly. The loss of these medicines, many of which are lifesaving, has raised concerns about possible negligence or malfeasance within the supply chain.
Meanwhile Former MLA National conference Bandipora Gh Rasool Naaz said that most of the peoples in far flung areas of Bandipora are struggling to get a single tablet from hospitals.Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp Channel
"By burning and destroying it in front of school can affect the health of the students,".
He appealed to higher authorities to investigate it and take action against those found involved in it.
However, officials from the Drug ware store Baramulla of Jammu and Kashmir Medical Supplies Corporation Limited (JKMSCL) contradicted these claims that no supply of this medicine had been given to Bandipora district since 2020, said that 200 units from this batch found on roadside was given to Bandipora health authorities in 2021.
"These medicines have been usually supplied to higher institutions or Government Medical colleges from the JKMSCL, as Bandipora did not have any GMC may have been given to District stores," he said.
Earlier Director health services Kashmir in a reply to this report replied that no such drugs have been supplied to Bandipora block since 2020.
Reliable sources from the District hospital Bandipora said that DH Bandipora received 100, 50 and 50 packets of linezolid infusion in July, November 2020 and January 2021 from the district store.
He also added that the medicines found on the roadside had a manufacturing date of February 2021. "No medicine has been supplied to DH Bandipora after Jan 2021," he added.
However this question remains unanswered, who had received this supply from JKMSCL in 2021 if not by District Medical store Bandipora if JKMSCL claimed of supplying it to Bandipora and why it has not been consumed.(KNS).