Hospital, Corpn. lock horns over ‘drug bank’ closure

Corpn. shuts down facility in its rest house citing ‘unauthorised use,’ SAT Hospital says drug supply affected

Drug sales have been partially affected at the SAT Hospital following a tiff between the hospital authorities and the city Corporation that closed down a makeshift office of its drug bank. A temporary office of the In House Drug Bank (IHDB), functioning under the SAT Hospital Health Education Society, which has been operating for some months from the Corporation’s rest house on the hospital premises, was shut down a day ago the civic body objected to its ‘unauthorised use.’ The IHDB had partially shifted its administration and store sections to the rest house in view of the reconstruction work of its own building. This did not go down well with the Corporation authorities who asked it to vacate the premises. Things came to a head when Mayor Arya Rajendran and Medical College ward councillor D.R. Anil conducted an inspection and locked the rest house on Wednesday evening.