The State Government has planned to distribute 530 kinds of medicines under the Niramay Yojana to patients at the medical colleges, District Headquarters Hospitals (DHHs) and other Government hospitals at an expenditure of Rs 200 crore during the current fiscal.
Health and Family Welfare Minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak informed this in the State Assembly on Friday in a written reply to a question by BJD member Ranendra Pratap Swain.
The Minister said the procurement process of these medicines is on and they would soon be supplied to Government medical colleges and health centres soon. Now patients are being treated with balance medicines kept stocked in the year 2014-15. Besides, when required, essential medicines are being purchased for treatment of patients, the Minister said.
To another question put by Congress MlA Subal Majhi, the Minister said an average of 150 patients is visiting the Casualty Department of the SCB Medical College Hospital daily. Similarly, 100 patients are visiting the Casualty Department MKCH Medical College Hospital and 85 are visiting the VIMSAR Casualty. While the SCB MCH Casualty has 34 beds and a 6-beded ICU, the MKCG MCH and the VIMSAR have 20 beds each in their Casualty units.