Patients visiting the State-level Government hospital Hamidia are facing problems in getting appropriate and adequate medicines.
The patients are provided with substitute medicines, instead of those medicines prescribed by the doctors. Official sources claimed that the reason behind the situation is the tardy pace of officials in procuring medicines. The hospital requires 269 medicines, but normally, there are only 35 medicines available in the stock.
Rajendra Singh of Shahjehanbad went for treatment of dog bite was administered ARB injection but acurab which was used earlier was not provided and the patient has to bring it which cost around Rs4000 to Singh.
Another example of patient which suffered the problems of the system was Satish Agrawal who was not able to get Paclitaxel due to the delay in the purchase process.
Superintendent of Hamidia hospital Dr DK Paul who is responsible for monitoring the availability of medicines, denied any shortage of medicines’ stock, claiming that there is no such issue and if there is any such issue he would check and maintain the availability of the medicines.
The State Government has finalised different list of essential medicines required at different hospitals. At the district hospital the number of essential medicines is 147, at the Community Health centers the number of essential medicines are 107 and at the primary health centers the number of essential medicines are 71.