PARADIP: Barely hours after the detection of a screw in injection bottle, administration of expired saline injection to an abortion patient has sent shockwaves among the people here.
A pregnant woman, Bishnupriya Das of Chatra village under Jagatsinghpur police limits, was admitted to a private nursing home in Jagatsinghpur town for abortion. She was treated by a gynaecologist of the district headquarters hospital. He advised Bishnupriya, who was already four months pregnant, to take admission in the nursing home where he performed the abortion.
Sometime later the woman complained of severe pain and uneasiness in which the doctor prescribed her ‘Ciprox’ saline injection which her relative bought from a medicine shop on the nursing home premises for Rs 78. Bishnupriya was injected the expired saline by a nurse there after which her condition deteriorated.
Bishnupriya’s father, Ramesh Das, said the manufacture date of the saline injection is November 2005 and expiry date October 2008. The Chief District Medical Officer has been informed.
CDMO, Jagatsinghpur, Narayan Sahoo, said the condition of the patient has improved.
The Drugs Controller, Bhubaneswar, has been asked to inquire into the supply of expired medicines and detection of screw incident while the ADMO has been directed to investigate the circumstances which led the doctor to perform the medical termination of pregnancy or abortion.
Meanwhile, the Drugs Controller, Bhubaneswar, and the Drugs Inspector, Cuttack, raided both the nursing home and medicine shop for the two cases and seized expired saline injection.