DHANGADI, MARCH 25

A hospital in Kailali has faced action for selling date-expired drugs. Nawajeevan Hospital of Dhangadi sub-metropolis-4, Ratopul, was fined after the kin of a minor undergoing treatment at the hospital moved the Office of Commerce, Supply, and Customer Protection of Kailali against the hospital for selling date-expired medicines.

According to Commerce, Supply and Customer Protection Office, Kailali, acting Chief Lalit Prasad Panta; the hospital was fined 200,000 rupees and warned against such negligence in the future. The action was taken by Industry, Commerce and Customer Welfare Protection Directorate of the province.

Dr Niraj Aryal of the hospital accused the patient's kin of forcefully taking the medicine away from the hospital, but added he had over 100 staffers at the hospital and so couldn't take responsibility of each and every staff member.

"We have a total of 104 staffers at the hospital, so I can't take responsibility of each of them, but we have warned the staffers involved in selling the date-expired drug," he said. The doctor, however, conceded that the hospital was fined upon the finding that it had sold date-expired medicine.

A version of this article appears in the print on March 26, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.