Kozhikode Corporation recalls medicines nearing expiry after councillors raise concerns
The Kozhikode Corporation is recalling medicines from health centers after reports surfaced that some supplies were nearing or past their expiry dates. The civic body is working with the National Health Mission to replace the stock and investigate the supply chain.
Why it matters
This incident raises concerns about public health safety and the efficiency of government-managed medical supply chains.
The Kozhikode Corporation has begun taking back medicines supplied to health and wellness centres and other primary health centres under its limits after several medicines were found to be nearing expiry, while some had already expired.
The move comes less than a week after councillors raised the issue at a Corporation council meeting, prompting Mayor O. Sadasivan to direct the civic body’s health wing to examine the matter and submit a report.
Following the complaints, the Corporation has begun an inventory of medicines nearing expiry and is taking back excess and old stock from the health centres. Medicines have already been taken back from five health centres, according to the Corporation’s health wing.
Officials said the agency that supplied the medicines was taking them back and that the process would be completed by Monday (September 7). The medicines taken back would be replaced, they said.
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