Patient Friendly Move By Food And Drugs Administration Maharashtra

BANGALORE, India - March 19, 2016 - PRLog -- In what could be seen as boon to patients The Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a notification on January 18 for all hospital pharmacy to allow patients to buy medicines from outside stores. This will ease burden on patients who were forced to buy certain branded drugs at higher prices from the hospital stores that they could get at a discount outside.

FDA has not only issued notice but also begun implementing the notification. Hospitals will be asked to display the regulation on the signboards of hospital pharmacies.

Mohan Kekatpure, joint commissioner FDA (Drugs) Nagpur division said FDA has taken this issue very seriously and is following it up with Hospital pharmacies. This move is for trying to safeguard the interest of the patient by asking all hospitals to issue a proper prescription for all medicines, disposables etc used on the patients as per the rules. "Generally hospitals do not even give prescriptions to patients. They first use the available medicines and disposables from hospital and then ask for replacements by writing the list on a plain paper instead of the hospital's letter head or prescription pad.

FDA has begun the drive from government hospitals like Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) and the Indira Gandhi Government Medical College (IGGMC) where the patient was never issued a prescription. Now every patient, OPD or admitted, will be given proper prescription.

Source: Times of India Mar 2, 2016, 04.27 AM IST

Atma Vallabh Medical and Educational Trust ( Foundation ) has made arrangements to Supply Anti Cancer Drugs on Prescription only and the Patients can obtain the Medicines by calling following numbers in various cities :

1.Bangalore - 080 4083 6666          2.Mumbai-022 4344 1234

3.Indore - 0731 4036 662          4.New Delhi - 011 2326  2750

5.Pune - 020 2615 0150          6.Kolkata -033 4061 2273

7. Ahmedabad - 079 2676 8949        8.Chennai - 044 2474 6301

9.Cochin - 0484 2597 107          10. Jaipur -0141 4029 949

11.Vijayawada - 90141 39399         12.Bhubaneswar - 75049 86190

13.Chandigarh -0172 519 5000        14.Hyderabad - 040 6452 2296/6452 2297

http://www.atmavallabhfoundation.org