In a bid to stop illegal supply of medicines, the Public Health Committee of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided that all tablets given to patients at civic-run hospitals will now bear the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) mark and medicine strips would have both the bar and QR codes.

An earlier tender, which was floated about two weeks back for the implementation of bar codes, has been cancelled, as a new tender incorporating all the three will soon be floated. This is the first time that such a decision has been taken, as time and again, the BMC health department has failed to control the shortage of medicines at hospitals.