Antibiotic injections found 'sub-standard' at SMGS hospital

The drug and food organisation of Jammu and Kashmir has found antibiotic injections administered to children and pregnant women at the SMGS Hospital as "sub-standard" and seized a significant quantity of it.
According to the Superintendent of the Hospital, Dr Dara Singh, a sample out of the batch of 16,750 vials of ampicillin, was found sub-standard by the Drug and Food Organisation.
"Generally a report from an accredited lab is accompanied with the medicine, but keeping in view the supply of spurious drugs in the state, whenever we receive any stock of drugs we ask the Drug and Food Organisation to pick the samples for the testing. In a similar exercise it was found that there was a problem with a batch of ampicillin injections," Singh told PTI.

He added that the department after conducting a visual inspection of the ampicillin sample has found it to be sub-standard with only 95.52 per cent of the actual salt present in it.
They have also said that some foreign bodies were seen in the sample, Singh said.
This is the second drug this year which has been found as sub-standard.
Earlier, in April this year, the Drug Control Department through its testing laboratory revealed that Amoxicillin Trihydrate, manufactured in August 2012 had zero potency, and, hence, failed the test.
The Jammu and Kashmir government ordered separate probes by the Crime Branch and the Vigilance Department into the purchase and supply of spurious drugs in the state on April 20.