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CHANDIGARH, JUNE 13
The Haryana Government has set up a Haryana Medical Services Corporation so as to further improve health services in the State.
While stating this here today, a spokesman of Haryana Health Department said that there is also a proposal to set up two new drug warehouses at Sonipat and Faridabad during current financial year. Seven Warehouses were identified in the State at district Ambala, Karnal, Kaithal, Gurgaon, Bhiwani, Rohtak and Hisar and out of these, five are in Government building at Kaithal, Gurgaon, Bhiwani, Rohtak and Hisar. The Department has set up remaining two in rented buildings at Ambala and Karnal.
He said that National Health Mission aims at reduction of Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) and Maternal Mortality Rate(MMR) in the state.Health Department, Haryana has taken steps to provide uninterrupted access to essential medicines of good quality and free of cost in all Government institutions and under health programmes. These are supplied through an efficient supply chain management practices in order to achieve the overall goal of health for all. Through this service, patients receive medicines appropriate to their clinical needs. Department would cover all aspects of Rational Drug Use, Standard Treatment Guidelines, Essential Medicines and Essential Consumables, Prescription Audit, Antibiotic Usage Policy and Policy for Treatment of Chronic Diseases, Monitoring and Evaluation of drug use through medicine use policy.
He said that free drug purchase policy was launched on January 1, 2009 to provide free and uninterrupted supply of good quality medicine to all OPD patients/Causality cases and delivery cases in all the Government health facilities in the state. The Haryana state has also implemented online web enabled drug software system for the procurement and drug demand generation system. This software can work for drug monitoring, reordering level, e-payment, e-monitoring, e-distribution, e-sampling, e-entitlement of each facility and also time saving of department. The drugs are also being purchased at state headquarters for Medical Colleges as per essential medicines available in drug warehouse.
State level quality control wing have also been established. Seven labs including two in Delhi, Bahadurgarh, Panchkula, Jaipur, Banglore and Hyderabad have been empanelled for testing of samples of medicines and medical consumables received from all the drug warehouses.
The Essential Medicines List(EML) was prepared which contains 290 essential drugs having 444 components and covered all type of medicines for district hospital/Sub district hospital/General Hospital/ TB Hospital. He said that the list also has 177 essential medicines having 298 components for Community Health Centre/Poly Clinic/FRU/TB clinic/urban health centres 145 essential medicines having 257 components for Primary Health Centre/Urban PHC/Dispensaries/RHC and 42 essential medicines having 67 components for Sub Centres.
Under New Drug Policy approved on February 26, 2013, the purchase has been centralized. All the purchase orders for procurement of free essentials medicines for the patients coming to health facilities were placed by the State Headquarters for six months requirement in the beginning and later on purchase order are being placed as per demand generation, he added.
======balbirsingh227@gmail.com
CHANDIGARH, JUNE 13
The Haryana Government has set up a Haryana Medical Services Corporation so as to further improve health services in the State.
While stating this here today, a spokesman of Haryana Health Department said that there is also a proposal to set up two new drug warehouses at Sonipat and Faridabad during current financial year. Seven Warehouses were identified in the State at district Ambala, Karnal, Kaithal, Gurgaon, Bhiwani, Rohtak and Hisar and out of these, five are in Government building at Kaithal, Gurgaon, Bhiwani, Rohtak and Hisar. The Department has set up remaining two in rented buildings at Ambala and Karnal.
He said that National Health Mission aims at reduction of Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) and Maternal Mortality Rate(MMR) in the state.Health Department, Haryana has taken steps to provide uninterrupted access to essential medicines of good quality and free of cost in all Government institutions and under health programmes. These are supplied through an efficient supply chain management practices in order to achieve the overall goal of health for all. Through this service, patients receive medicines appropriate to their clinical needs. Department would cover all aspects of Rational Drug Use, Standard Treatment Guidelines, Essential Medicines and Essential Consumables, Prescription Audit, Antibiotic Usage Policy and Policy for Treatment of Chronic Diseases, Monitoring and Evaluation of drug use through medicine use policy.
He said that free drug purchase policy was launched on January 1, 2009 to provide free and uninterrupted supply of good quality medicine to all OPD patients/Causality cases and delivery cases in all the Government health facilities in the state. The Haryana state has also implemented online web enabled drug software system for the procurement and drug demand generation system. This software can work for drug monitoring, reordering level, e-payment, e-monitoring, e-distribution, e-sampling, e-entitlement of each facility and also time saving of department. The drugs are also being purchased at state headquarters for Medical Colleges as per essential medicines available in drug warehouse.
State level quality control wing have also been established. Seven labs including two in Delhi, Bahadurgarh, Panchkula, Jaipur, Banglore and Hyderabad have been empanelled for testing of samples of medicines and medical consumables received from all the drug warehouses.
The Essential Medicines List(EML) was prepared which contains 290 essential drugs having 444 components and covered all type of medicines for district hospital/Sub district hospital/General Hospital/ TB Hospital. He said that the list also has 177 essential medicines having 298 components for Community Health Centre/Poly Clinic/FRU/TB clinic/urban health centres 145 essential medicines having 257 components for Primary Health Centre/Urban PHC/Dispensaries/RHC and 42 essential medicines having 67 components for Sub Centres.
Under New Drug Policy approved on February 26, 2013, the purchase has been centralized. All the purchase orders for procurement of free essentials medicines for the patients coming to health facilities were placed by the State Headquarters for six months requirement in the beginning and later on purchase order are being placed as per demand generation, he added.
======balbirsingh227@gmail.com
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