Today is World Thyroid Day, which is observed to promote awareness and understanding of thyroid health and the advances made in treating thyroid diseases. While all that is good, what is disheartening for a number of patients is the fact that free distribution of medicines for a condition called hypothyroidism has been stalled for the past 10 months at the state-run Sassoon General Hospital.u00a0

Dr B B Ghongane, professor and Head of the Department of Pharmacy, confirmed that the medicines are out of stock for the past 10 months despite having sent quotation forms to pharmaceutical companies several times.