DSI talks to hospital staff over drug order
Department of Special Investigation (DSI) officials yesterday went to Buri Ram's Nong Khee Hospital to interview the hospital director, pharmacists and medical staff after hospital pharmacist Sompong Triratha reportedly filed an order for 90,000 tablets
Initial findings suggested the hospital wasn’t involved with the pharmacist’s alleged wrongdoing, and that Sompong may have used the hospital’s name to obtain the medicine, which can be used in the production of narcotics and was recently banned. The DSI would check the details of Sompong’s drug orders and distributions in 2010 and 2011.
The investigation resulted from the discovery that, in 2011, the hospital’s cold medicine orders of 100,000 tablets and 3,000 bottles didn’t match a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) report showing that it had sent the hospital 190,000 tablets and 4,500 bottles.
Sompong was transferred to an inactive post at the Buri Ram Public Health Office, pending investigation results.
