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Kerala Health Minister K Muraleedharan has ordered an investigation into whether expired Remdesivir vials were administered to Nipah patients between 2023 and 2025, following concerns raised in the Legislative Assembly by MLA Mathew Kuzhalnadan. The drug, purchased on June 3, 2021, in a batch of 3,000 vials at a cost of Rs 42 lakh, had an expiry date of May 30, 2023. Records from Kozhikode Medical College indicate that 102 vials were used in 2023–24, 34 in 2024–25, and 10 in 2025–26, raising suspicion that expired doses may have been used.
An expert medical board headed by Dr Aravind R of Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram, will examine whether the use of expired Remdesivir contributed to patient deaths. Of the six Nipah cases in 2023, two died; both cases in 2024 died, and two of three in 2025 died, while the single 2026 case survived. The Directorate of Medical Education and the Directorate of Health Services have been directed to compile a registry of all patients who received the drug under these conditions.
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