Kanpur. The crisis of medicines has once again hit Hallat Hospital affiliated to GSVM Medical College. There is only four days left of the stock of IV fluid including normal saline required for every patient. Whereas the antibiotics Metronidazole, Augmentin and Hepatitis B medicines given to every admitted patient have been exhausted. What’s more, even life-saving medicines like adrenaline and calcium gluconate have been exhausted in Halt.
If IV fluids are not arranged quickly this week, it will become difficult for doctors to treat patients. However, the government has recently changed the policy of purchasing medicines. But it has backfired for GSVM Medical College. Therefore, guidelines for clarity in the policy have been sought from the government so that medicines can be purchased.
1600 patients are treated every day
Let us tell you that every day two hundred patients are admitted in emergency in Hallett Hospital. Fourteen hundred patients are already admitted, in which many IV fluids are given to each patient and antibiotics and life-saving medicines and injections are given to the serious patients. Two thousand bottles of IV fluid are consumed daily. UP Medical Corporation has not given its stock and the complicated medicine purchase policy has tied the hands of the Halat administration, hence it cannot purchase it on its own.
Similarly, the stock of Metronidazole has also been exhausted. The corporation did not supply this also. Hallett administration had purchased 6 thousand vials on the instructions of the Principal, but their use has been stopped due to the deterioration in the health of two patients in Ward-3. As far as hepatitis B is concerned, it is considered an incurable disease. Therefore, Halat gives one month’s medicine to every patient, but his medicine has also expired. Neither the corporation provided the medicine for Hepatitis B nor Halet could purchase it.
Medicines are not being supplied as per demand
In the whole matter, Superintendent of Hallett Hospital, Prof. RK Singh says that the corporation is not able to supply medicines as per the demand. More than ten medicines have been exhausted in the stock and even after the change in the purchase policy, medicines are not being purchased, hence the Principal has sought guidelines from the government. There is a crisis of IV fluids.
Trouble over change in purchase policy
The government has changed the medicine purchase policy in all medical colleges including GSVM and has now made it clear that medical colleges will be able to purchase 80 percent of medicines from the annual budget. Earlier this policy was 20 and 80 percent but only those who are not in the list of 295 of the corporation will be purchased. The situation is that the corporation is not able to provide medicines to the colleges on time. Therefore, this policy was changed but the big problem is that the medical colleges have to purchase 80 percent of the medicines on the rate contract of KGMU, but what will happen to the rate contract of GSVM?