The management of the Benue State University Teaching Hospital on Friday destroyed drugs that were termed expired in the hospital.
The drugs reportedly worth N200 million were set ablaze in the premises of the hospital along Gboko road in Makurdi.
The chief medical director of the hospital who was recently appointed by the state noted earlier on Wednesday that the management was planning to destroy drugs that expired at the Muhammadu Buhari Mother and Child Hospital stores in the state capital.
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The medical director who berated the former management of the hospital for allowing drugs to expire noted: “These are drugs acquired by the hospital to be used by the hospital for the patients. So why did they abandon the drugs to the point of expiration?”
He further explained: “When you get drugs with short dates, you can convey some of these drugs to other hospitals for instance, we have Internally Displaced Persons camps you can give them, hospitals and you can even do medical outreach with the drugs before they expire
“There is no reason you should have drugs worth this amount of money expiring in this hospital when the whole state needs drugs. To keep our record straight because sometimes people may even go to the store and still use them so we decided to destroy the drugs.”
Speaking on the types of drugs he explained that “every kind of drugs, antibiotics, anti-hypertensive, anti-malaria including consumables like iodine, bandages, urine bags, everything this can form a big pharmacy in Makurdi.”
He further explained the hospital had written to the police in the state to get permission to bury 100 unclaimed corpses in the morgue.
The drugs were reportedly left unused by the former management of the hospital who was recently replaced by the state governor
