It has been found that expired medicines are sold and distributed from the pharmacy operated by District Hospital Achham. The district level monitoring team found 12 types of expired medicines in the pharmacy operated by the hospital for the sale of medicines other than the free medicines available in the hospital on Tuesday.

The monitoring team confiscated the expired drugs that were kept for sale with the technical assistance of District Administration Office, Household and Small Industries Office and Health Office Achham.

Sunscreen lotion 38 pieces, Cetaphil 6 pieces, Clidazicin 26 boxes, Terbinafine 25 boxes, Amoxicillin plus vaccine 20 bottles, Vicacodyl 31 strips, Govapentin 1 box have been found during monitoring .

Similarly, Rosavastin 85 strips, Prebiotic 1 bottle, Alloprazole 1 strip, Alprazolan 16 and a half strips and Stalopram 16 and a half strips were found to be out of date .

Administrative Officer of the District Administration Office, Santosh Vick, said that based on the information that expired medicines were being sold in the pharmacy operated by the government hospital, the monitoring was done. It was found that expired and unexpired medicines are being sold in the pharmacy operated by the hospital. We have also sent a warning letter after monitoring with the technical support of the health office,' he said, 'it is not possible for the district administration office to take the lead and take action against the pharmacy and medical. There is a system to monitor and take action by the drug administration department. We have taken this issue to the top level.' According to a member of the

monitoring team, although regular monitoring was done in the private pharmacies and medical centers in the district, there was no monitoring in the pharmacy operated by the district hospital. "The monitoring team did not take into account the fact that expired medicines may be sold in the medical facilities operated by the government-run district hospital," said the member of the monitoring team. This has made them aware.'

District Hospital Administration and Management Committee has been in internal conflict for a long time and has not paid attention to the pharmacy and other conditions of the hospital, said an employee of Astal. The management committee needs a suitable head of office. Even the doctors are divided into two parts about who should be made the boss,'' said the employee, 'it is a pharmacy that was opened for the purpose of selling medicine to the general public in an accessible way. There has been excessive carelessness in thinking about how much commission one gets from buying medicine.