Hospital administers expiry date drugs – Loses its day in court

Issue - February - 2021, Posted On:   01 February 2021

This case is a learning for hospitals on two important procedural aspects – first, in maintaining systems to keep a check on expiry dates of medicines, to ensure that they are discarded and not administered to patients. Second, taking improper consent or adding / removing anything from consent forms can be inferred as fabrication.

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