The State Government has decided to provide medicine passbooks to the beneficiaries of free drugs scheme Niramaya so that data can be maintained about the medicines they get during treatment.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday while reviewing the Niramaya scheme directed the Health and Family Welfare Department to introduce the passbook system from Acharya Harihar Regional Cancer Centre (AHRCC) in the first phase.
Patnaik also directed to prepare a roadmap for execution of Common Minimum Diagnostics at Government-run medical colleges and hospitals, District Headquarters Hospitals (DHH) and other health institutions in a month. Radiology and Pathology facility would be available under the Common Minimum Diagnostics facility.
“The CM has directed to implement medicine passbook so that both doctor and patient can know about the medicines the former have prescribed,” said Health and Family Welfare Minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak after the meeting.
The meeting revealed that a total of 59.25 lakh patients have so far benefitted under the Niramaya scheme while the free medicine scheme was extended to all primary health centres (PHCs). As many as 421 medicines are being provided free of cost now.
The meeting also decided to procure medicines for 2016-17 from August 14.