With a view to overcome shortage of medicines in the State, the Haryana Government has given approval for the purchase of medicines worth Rs 165 crore and 14 advance life support ambulances.
Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij while presiding over a meeting of the Special High Powered Purchase Committee on Tuesday said that the committee had been constituted to purchase equipment and medicines for the Health Department.
The ambulances being purchased would be equipped with all kinds of modern facilities and deputed in various districts for the facility of patients, he informed.
Order has been placed for the purchase of about 400 kinds of important medicines worth about Rs 150 crore for a period of two years. Similarly, in order to prevent Hepatitis-C, order has been given for the purchase of oral medicines for about Rs 10 crore, and bed-sheets of seven colours for all hospitals for about Rs 5 crore, said the Health Minister.
Vij said that approval had also been given for the purchase of 415 new pieces of medical equipment worth about Rs 15 crore this month on which the Government would save about Rs 2 crore.
These include 60 ECG machines, 18 Electronic Tourniquet, ten CR System, three Phaco Machines, four Operating Microscope Eye, five Autorefractometer, nine C-Arm Compatible OT table, 116 Syringe Pump, 180 Multipara Monitor and ten Ultrasound Colour Doppler. This would help fulfil the long pending demand of hospitals in the State, he added.