Benue destroys N200m expired drugs,to bury 100 unclaimed corpses

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Benue State Government on Friday destroyed expired drugs worth over N200 million.

The expired drugs were set ablaze within the premises of Benue State University Teaching Hospital, located along Gboko road, Makurdi.

The Chief Medical Director of BSUTH, Stephen Hwande had on Wednesday said his intention to destroy the expired drugs kept at Muhammad Buhari Mother and Child Hospital stores in the capital city.

Speaking with journalists at the spot of destroying the expired drugs, Hwande said that the expired drugs belong to the Teaching Hospital.

The CMD further said that unclaimed 100 corpses were in the hospital morgue, adding that the hospital had written to the State Commissioner of Police to grant permission to dispose of the corpses.


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