nainital the district administration has on saturday ordered the closure of a medical store and served notices to two others for improper disposal of waste near naini lake the administration has also issued challans to five other medical shops in the area according to sources the action comes after huge quantities of medical waste expired medicines sanitary napkins syringes and other products were found in the drains connecting naini lake on wednesday students and ngos who were part of a cleanliness drive on the occasion of gandhi jayanti had then complained to the district administration about the medical wastenainital subdivisional magistrate vinod kumar said that they inspected around a dozen medical shops in mallital and tallital and found many wereflouting the norms we visited the spot where the medical waste was found and saw that the medicines were meant for the government hospital however an inquiry at the district hospital revealed that that the waste wasnt thrown from the hospital he addeddm savin bansal said that the investigation will continue till the source of the medical waste is discovered