By IANS,
New Delhi : Following the death of 12 pregnant women at a government hospital in Rajasthan after they were allegedly administered contaminated IV fluids, union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Dinesh Trivedi Wednesday emphasised on the need for random checks on medicines being administered in hospitals.
“I really do not know what kind of system they (hospital authorities) are following, to my mind there has to be some kind of a random check on these IV fluids or whichever medicines were being administered,” Trivedi told a TV channel.
Replying to a question on the death of several women in a hospital in Rajasthan’s Jodhpur last month, Trivedi said: “There has to be something wrong somewhere. But what was wrong can only be found when proper reports come in, otherwise it would just be speculative and it is not a good idea to be speculative.”
The central government has also sent a team of experts to look into the incident.
Over a period of 10 days last month, 13 women, 12 of them pregnant, died of excessive bleeding in the government-run Umaid Hospital in Jodhpur.
The victims died after they were allegedly administered contaminated IV fluids of a particular batch manufactured by Madhya Pradesh’s Parental Surgical India Pvt Ltd.
Hospital superintendent Narendra Changani lodged a complaint with police against the company and its local distributor Anshul Pharma after microbiological examination of the IV fluids suggested presence of bacteria.