Kerala Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan has accused Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and his Cabinet colleagues of ignoring the acute shortage of medicines in pharmacy stores faced by government hospitals in the State.
Speaking to the media in Kozhikode January 6 (Saturday), Mr. Satheesan said that patients were being asked to buy 75% of the medicines from private stores. This was happening because Kerala Medical Services Corporation Ltd (KMSCL) was not distributing medicines as per the purchase indent submitted by the hospitals, he pointed out.
“The corporation owes crores of rupees to pharmaceutical companies for the drugs they have delivered. Because of that, the companies are refusing to provide fresh stocks,” he alleged.
