Govt. to streamline drug procurement, supply process
The government plans to streamline the drug procurement and supply process to ensure efficient distribution to hospitals and patients, according to Health Minister Satya Kumar Yadav. A specialized agency will be engaged to review the entire system, including the Essential and Additional Medicines Lists. The review aims to remove unnecessary medicines and include essential ones to improve healthcare delivery.
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A robust system would be put in place to review and monitor the process of drug procurement and its distribution to various hospitals and then to the patients, said Minister for Health, Medical Education and Family Welfare Satya Kumar Yadav.In a meeting at the Secretariat on Thursday, April 30, to discuss the availability of medicines, the Minister said a specialised agency would be roped in to review the whole process. He said the Essential Medicines List and Additional Medicines List would be reviewed and those medicines that are not necessary would be removed and essential ones would be added.
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