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FDA investigates alleged expired drugs at Tamale Teaching Hospital

Recent reports indicated that the hospital was administering expired anaesthetic drugs at its surgical theatres.

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There were recent reports that the hospital was administering expired anaesthetic drugs at its surgical theatres.

This prompted a closure after patients reported of complications.

The Northern Regional Director of FDA, Martin Kusi has said his outfit has begun an audit and he hopes that it will be completed by the end of this month to allow for the destruction of the alleged expired drugs.

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“We went in to investigate, now we have lots of expired drugs in Tamale Teaching Hospital which we have arranged to dispose off. For now we have not finished taking the inventory we are hopeful by the end of the month we’ll be able to finish the inventory and then we”ll procdeed from there to go and have the disposal of the medicines which are expired at the hospital.“There are a lot of administrative procedure that one will have to go through before being allowed to take an action or activity and these are some of the things that we have to endure, we couldn’t just go straight foward to the hospital to take inventory. We had to write to the Chief Executive, he had to reply and later on we were given the access to take inventory of the medicines,” he said.

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