Questions over viability, quality of drugs, vaccines due to power cuts

Another startling disclosure comes from Dr. Ruvaiz Haniffa.

He questions what happens to the mandatory requirement that all pharmacies should be air-conditioned to ensure that medicines retain their viability and quality.

One of his patients had to go round and round the city because not many pharmacies stocked the tetanus toxoid injection as their fridges were affected by the lengthy power cuts. Even for larger pharmacies which had generators, there was no fuel to operate them.

He is hesitant even to think about the fate of vaccines with massive power-cuts and fridges not working. These vaccines include those given under the National Immunization Programme and also those against COVID-19.