Expired Saline Use: Balangir CDMO Transfers Three Nurses

Balangir: Two days after the incident on the use of expired saline at the district headquarters hospital, the Chief District Medical Officer, Balangir, on Friday transferred three nurses for dereliction of their duties.

“The three nurses of the district headquarters hospital have been transferred after a preliminary investigation”, said CDMO Sugyanendra Mishra.

The CDMO on February 15 had ordered a probe into the use of expired saline injection after the incident came to light at the district headquarters hospital in the evening on a day before.

One Achyutananda Swain of Gandhinagar Pada had admitted his ailing daughter to the Mother and Child Health (MCH) ward of the district headquarters hospital in the evening on February 14. Later the nurse had administered a saline injection to the girl in the night.

However, Swain was shocked after he found that the saline injection given to his daughter has already expired since November, 2017.

As he revealed the matter to the patients and attendants in the ward, the panicked attendants checked the other saline bottles and found three more expired saline bottles given to the patients.

Following information, the doctor in-charge of the ward S Nayak examined these expired saline bottles and removed them immediately.

Meanwhile, the CDMO on Saturday placed storekeeper Gandharbaraj Deep under suspension after huge quantity of expired injections was found inside the store room of the district headquarters hospital.