Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has blacklisted a Gujarat-based medicine manufacturing company for supplying low-quality saline to the Odisha State Medical Corporation (OSMC) for distribution among the beneficiaries under the Niramaya scheme.
Apart from issuing a show-cause notice, OSMC has debarred the Aculife Healthcare Private Ltd from participating in any tender floated by it for three years.
The corporation, however, maintained that these low-quality saline have not been supplied to any government hospital.
Talking to the media, a senior official said the corporation had floated a tender in 2016-17 and selected Aculife Healthcare Private Ltd for the supply of Compound Sodium Lactate Intravenous Infusion (Ringer’s lactate solution), iv Dextrose and sodium chloride of 500 ML each for the Niramaya scheme.