It appears airport authorities at the swanky Terminal 2 are stocking old medicines. An airport official showed this correspondent pictures of medicines, on whose label someone had either overwritten the dates with a pen, or scratched off the dates altogether.
In the pictures is a bottle of betadine solution, on which both manufacturing and expiry date have been scraped off. Betadine is used as an antiseptic. On another bottle of an antiseptic solution, the expiry date was found to have been changed to “11/14” with a pen.
The situation even at the domestic terminal is the same expired medicines continue to be stored at the medical inspection (MI) rooms, including cyclopam (for stomach pain) and Calpol syrup (used to treat fever in children). There are two MI rooms at T2 (one each in arrivals and departure) and one at the domestic terminal 1B.
The airport official said, “Medicines are ordered on a random basis; orders are placed when the stock of a particular medicine is over. There is no fixed day on which drugs are inspected for their dates of usage.” Another official chimed in, “There are times when the paramedics write an order of two strips of a particular drug. But, they end up getting only 5 tablets to the MI room. Many a times, passengers are turned back because the medicines are not available.”
17/06/14 Neha LM Tripathi/Mid Day
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In the pictures is a bottle of betadine solution, on which both manufacturing and expiry date have been scraped off. Betadine is used as an antiseptic. On another bottle of an antiseptic solution, the expiry date was found to have been changed to “11/14” with a pen.
The situation even at the domestic terminal is the same expired medicines continue to be stored at the medical inspection (MI) rooms, including cyclopam (for stomach pain) and Calpol syrup (used to treat fever in children). There are two MI rooms at T2 (one each in arrivals and departure) and one at the domestic terminal 1B.
The airport official said, “Medicines are ordered on a random basis; orders are placed when the stock of a particular medicine is over. There is no fixed day on which drugs are inspected for their dates of usage.” Another official chimed in, “There are times when the paramedics write an order of two strips of a particular drug. But, they end up getting only 5 tablets to the MI room. Many a times, passengers are turned back because the medicines are not available.”
17/06/14 Neha LM Tripathi/Mid Day
