AIADMK’s general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Tuesday, November 14, 2023, complained of a of shortage of medicines at government hospitals in Tamil Nadu.
In a statement, he said that unlike during the previous regime of the AIADMK when medicines were bought through the Tamil Nadu Medical Services Corporation (TNMSC), the present practice was to get them through local purchase, as a result of which only half the required quantity was being procured.
Accusing the DMK government of having closed down Amma clinics, an initiative of the AIADMK regime, Mr. Palaniswami said the present regime had, instead, opened merely 700 pharmacies under the project of urban healthcare, leaving people of villages in the lurch for medicines even for minor ailments such as cough and fever.
