Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, July 17: Senior National Conference leader and MLA Kangan Mian Altaf Ahmed has expressed deep anguish over the non availability of emergency and life saving drugs in Government hospitals, particularly in major and tertiary care hospitals in the Valley.
In a statement issue, Mian Altaf Ahmed said that the Kashmir Hospitals are facing acute shortage of emergency and life saving drugs and disposables due to which the patients are forced to purchase the medicines from open market on un-affordable prices.
“Rural hospitals as well as major hospitals in Srinagar have no emergency drugs and disposables leaving poor patients to suffer adding that the department is in complete mess and the Government has failed to procure and purchase supply from the JKMSL as the Government has made it mandatory that all hospital purchases be routed through JKMSL only and no hospital could purchase any medicine, drug or disposable on its own,” he said..
“The corporation was constituted for supplying medicines and other allied items of highest quality to the Government hospitals at cheaper rates besides ensuring quality of drugs/ medicines to be supplied to Government hospitals, however contrary to it, the patients are forced to purchase medicines from open market with no guarantee of its quality and rates” the statement added.
Mian Altaf urged the Chief Minister and Health Minister to take immediate steps to redress the issue so that the poor patients are relieved.
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