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Mumbai: BMC hospitals hit by medicine shortage
Updated On: 06 December, 2018 07:35 AM IST | Mumbai | Rupsa Chakraborty
Mumbai's civic-run hospitals left high and dry after running through two-year stock of medicines in one year; health department orders an inquiry
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BMC-run hospitals seem to have found themselves in a peculiar situation. They have used up their two-year stock of medicines in one year itself and are now faced with a severe shortage. Among the important medicines currently out of stock are insulin, antibiotics, and some injections. The health department has now initiated an inquiry into it and a three-member committee has been formed for the purpose. In this connection, the civic body has also decided to suspend the licence of one of the suppliers who failed to supply medicines on time despite three notices.
The health ministry has also been asked to give the deans of government-run hospitals the authority to buy medicines up to Re 1 lakh in case of shortage. In September 2017, BMC had procured medicines worth Rs 46 crore for a period of two years after which the hospitals had a stock that was 40 per cent above the required amount in case of a crisis. But the quota has already been exhausted much before its intended time. Patients are now buying these medicines from private chemists instead of having them provided free of cost at civic hospitals.
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