Rapthadu MLA Thopudurthi Prakash Reddy at the Zilla Parishad general body meeting here on Saturday flagged the issue of the severe shortage of common medicines in the stores and highlighted how people were affected by that.
Zilla Parishad Territorial Constituency member from Anantapur Rural Mandal J. Chandra Kumar and others raised the issue of Primary Health Centres not stocking essential medicines, which had allegedly led to deaths of three persons recently.
They also pointed out how the HIV-infected persons were having to miss their cycle of medicines under Anti-Retroviral Treatment (ART). This issue was highlighted by The Hindu in these columns on February 6.
