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After substandard drugs now the matter of substandard PPE kits being supplied by the UPMSCL to medical colleges is making news.
In a letter on April 13 the DGME Dr K K Gupta wrote to the heads of all medical institutions including KGMU and Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences giving details of the complaints from two medical institutions.
The GIMC, Noida and Meerut medical college have reported substandard PPE kits being supplied by the UPMSCL. Hence doctors at all other institutes should check quality of the PPE kits supplied to them. The DGME has sent letter to the medical institutes across state where COVID-19 hospitals are made.
UPMSCL has been in the news for substandard medicine supplied via suppliers. UPMSCL has been assigned the task of supplying medicine and all other medical equipment to government hospitals across the state and in several cases the medicine supplied failed lab test. The stock was then called back and the fresh stock was brought. But in this melee patients had to supper as necessary medicines remained out of stock at the hospital level.
As per the details with the government doctors the PPE kits poor quality such as their size was too small. Hence the doctors’ body remain exposed to infection when they attended patients. A PPE kits is made check infection transmission from patient to doctor.
Doctors are worried about this news and said this needs action. Dr Amit Singh general secretary of the provincial medical service association said that poor quality of PPE kits or masks will put life of doctors to risk.
The institutions have been asked to get PPE kits on their own and replace the old and substandard stock if any. But the suppliers are limited and this is a big problem.
