KOHIMA, April 6 - The Naga Hospital Authority Kohima (NHAK) has decided to cancel the Pharmaceutical trading license of a pharmacy on charge of selling certain brand of expired drugs.
The Angami Youth Organisation (AYO), an apex youth body in the State capital, had detected that certain brands of expired medicines were being sold to patients of NHAK by the pharmacy, which is being run within the hospital premises by a private party.
The NHAK authorities also pledged to AYO to extend medical and related cover up insurances to any patient afflicted with drug-related reactions arising out of the medication from such medicines, an AYO statement said.
The AYO has urged members of the medical fraternity to carefully cross check the manufactured and expiry dates of all medicines before administering any medicines to their patients.
It has also requested the general public to be cautious on such matters. � PTI
