Drugs supplied to hospitals in J&K not tested before given to patients: CAG report

Putting lives of patients at risk, the J&K government has been approving use of medicines in hospitals without any quality check, an official report has revealed. In its latest report, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India has brought to fore some damning revelations on how patients’ health is being compromised due to absence of a drug testing policy in Jammu and Kashmir. “The audit revealed that no policy mechanism was in place for testing of drugs before these are administered to patients,” reads the report which was tabled in…

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