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A peculiar integrated pharmacy antagonistic has been acceptable up astatine Government Medical College Hospital Thiruvananthapuram, to cater to the medicine request of the beneficiaries of assorted wellness security schemes.
A connection issued by Health Minister Veena George said that during her sojourn to the Medical College recently, 1 of the main complaints raised by the families of patients, who were the beneficiaries of assorted wellness security schemes, was astir the difficulties they faced successful getting medicines.
Medicines prescribed by the doctors had to beryllium bought from assorted pharmacies. If 1 medicine was not disposable successful a pharmacy, they had to get the non availability of the medicine sealed truthful that they could bargain it from different pharmacy.
It was to resoluteness this trouble faced by patients that a determination was taken to unfastened a pharmacy antagonistic adjacent the antagonistic of the wellness security scheme, from wherever each the empanelled pharmacies volition supply medicines escaped of outgo to the security strategy beneficiaries.
Health security strategy
The integrated pharmacy antagonistic has present been acceptable up adjacent the aged casualty gathering astatine the hospital. The pharmacies which person been empanelled nether the wellness security strategy – main store, assemblage pharmacy, Karunya pharmacy and HLL outlet – volition proviso medicines from the caller pharmacy counter. A abstracted billing antagonistic has been readied for these pharmacies.
The pharmacy antagonistic volition relation circular the timepiece to supply medicines to the beneficiaries of assorted wellness security schemes, truthful that they bash not person to roam astir the MCH field to procure their medicines.
A connection issued by the Health section said that done Karunya Arogya Suraksha Padhati, Karunya Benevolent Fund and Arogyakiranam schemes, astatine slightest 25 lakh beneficiaries had sought escaped attraction successful the past 5 years and that escaped attraction worthy ₹8,425 crore had been provided to them. Through the Kerala Medical Services Corporation, escaped medicines worthy ₹3,500 crore had been distributed during this period. Government Medical College Hospitals unsocial had provided escaped attraction worthy ₹535.25 crore.
