PD denounced the use of expired medicines, QSUT reacts: Unfounded allegations

QSUT has reacted after the denunciation of the democratic deputy Albana Vokshi, who said that by order of the director of QSUT, expired medicines are given to sick children.

In a reaction, QSUT has denied PD's accusation stating that they do not use expired medicines. ACCORDING TO QSUT, the accusations are untrue and that the expiration date of the medicines has not been changed.

REACTION:

We inform all citizens that the latest news published by some media about the quality of medications used in the QSUT, are FALSE!

NO EXPIRED MEDICINES ARE USED AT QSUT!

What has been served as "documents" and "evidence" are related to the administrative management process, and are NOT related in any case to the physical movement of the amount of stored medications and even more so to their use for patients.

THIS IS EASILY PROVEN *at the Hospital Pharmacy*

Raising these baseless claims is INTENTIONALLY HARMING the work of the medical team at the service of patients!

We clarify that in the SISP electronic system, the movement of medications at all levels, from the Central Pharmacy to the patient level, takes place only within the validity (expiration) of the medication, and after this period, any movement is automatically blocked by the system at all levels.

We emphasize that for the patient's daily therapy, it IS BLOCKED AND IMPOSSIBLE to discharge an expired medication.

THERE IS NO CASE OR POSSIBILITY OF CHANGING THE EXPIRY OF A MEDICINE.

Regarding the alleged case, we emphasize that for administrative needs, in order to differentiate the expired medication, the transfer of the amount of expired medication from one warehouse to another was requested. This is because the physically expired medication must be moved to the quarantine defined for the storage of expired medications, according to the rules in force. This procedure is being used speculatively as a case where these drugs have been used on patients. We assure that this did not happen and that the stock quantity of expired medications is unchanged. If it had been used, there would have been a change in the stock condition, which proves that this claim deliberately put in the media is misleading.

Actions in the system are mainly done after 16.00 in order to avoid their movement by mistake by users to other levels (in charge of hospital pharmacies or head nurses of wards) that operate in the system until 16.00.

Regarding the quote that the Parliament was deceived, in official correspondence QSUNT has stated that: "_Currently in the Central Pharmacy there is NO quantity of the drug Feiba (Factor VIII inhibitor bypassing activity) 1000 UI Vial...; This, since the remaining amount of 1137 flak from the donation received for the first time during 2023, with a budget impact of 0 (zero) lek, is unusable. We also clarify that the drug FEIBA is not a chemopreparation._

QSU 'Mother Teresa' remains open for the clarification of any claim *as was also stated in the parliamentary commission* as well as for the necessary transparency that serves the trust of doctor / patient.