The President’s Counsel, who represented the aggrieved celebration on this case, an organisation referred to as the Citizen’s Energy in opposition to Bribery, Corruption and Waste, offered these info and requested the Court docket to use the related particulars to this case.
The President’s Counsel knowledgeable Court docket that three sufferers who have been admitted to Ward 16 of the Colombo Nationwide Hospital on August 13, 2023, particularly, Udaya Perera, J. Abeywardena and Ashoka Palisena died as a result of extreme allergic reactions following the administration of the human immunoglobulin injection.
Deputy Solicitor Common Lakmini Girihagama, representing the Lawyer Common, instructed Court docket that an investigation had been carried out relating to the doc handed over to the Felony Investigation Division (CID) by the above organisation and a dialogue with the medical doctors of the Colombo Nationwide Hospital relating to the incident too was held.
The Deputy Solicitor Common knowledgeable the Court docket that one of many sufferers who died on this incident was given the controversial injection. Quickly after, he developed an allergy, and the medical doctors tried to save lots of his life, however couldn’t. The medical doctors instantly withdrew the medication from use.
On the final listening to date, the Director Common of Well being Companies (DGHS) was ordered to submit a report back to the CID earlier than Might 30 relating to those that died or grew to become ailing at state hospitals after the administration of human immunoglobulin or the anti-cancer drug ‘Rituximab’ delivered to Sri Lanka underneath the Indian mortgage scheme. Accordingly, the Deputy Solicitor Common instructed the Court docket that an investigation can be began after receiving the report.
9 suspects, together with former Well being Minister Keheliya Rambukwella and former Secretary to the Ministry of Well being, Janaka Chandragupta, have been introduced earlier than the Court docket by the jail officers yesterday and the fifth suspect appeared within the Court docket as a suspect launched on bail.
The Court docket issued orders to additional remand the suspects till April 22.
