Medicine shortage ails GH-6

PANCHKULA: The patients at General Hospital, Sector 6, are a harassed lot as stock of major medicines has been exhausted. So much so that even ordinary medicines like antipyretic and ORS are also not available. “I have come here three times. My son has fever but they don’t have medicines. They say all medicines are out of stock,” said Komal, a resident of Sector 14, Panchkula.She further added, “Now, I will have to the market to get the medicines.”
Ordinary medicines like that of fever, sugar, other antibiotics and even ORS solution are not available. Not only this, there are some medicines, which are prescribed by doctors of the hospital and aren’t available elsewhere.
Even those are out of stock. “The doctor has prescribed medicines which were earlier, available only at the government dispensary, but now they say they don’t have those either. What do we do now? As these antibiotics are not available in the market,” rued Rajesh, a resident of Sector 21, whose wife is suffering from diarrhoea.
“We really face a lot of difficulty at night as when some medicines are needed urgently and the chemists’ shops in the vicinity are closed. Are the authorities waiting for some mishap,” said an upset Varun Gupta of Sector 12.
“It has been a month since the medicine stock has finished. We just have simple cough syrups and nothing else. We informed the authorities several times, but they haven’t sent us anything,” said an official at the medicines counter, declining to be named.
“It is true that stock of the medicines has exhausted and people are facing lots of difficulties as medicines even for the emergency and OPD purposes are not available. I have already written to the higher authorities demanding medicines and the problem will soon be sorted out,” said principal medical officer Usha Gupta.