India, Oct. 28 -- In a shocking incident, expired medicine was allegedly supplied to a patient at the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC)-run (late) Nathuram Shankar Marathe Hospital in Jay Bhavani Nagar, Kothrud. Luckily, the patient noticed that the medicine was past its expiry date just in time to avert a possible medical emergency, civic officials revealed on October 27.

According to PMC officials, the incident occurred on October 18 when an organ transplant patient, Prakash Shelar, was supplied an expired vial of Actrapid FlexPen insulin for the treatment of diabetes by the said hospital's pharmacist, Devdhar Valvi. Furthermore, Shelar was erroneously supplied magnesium-based tablets instead of the vitamin D3 supplements prescribed by ...