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SILCHAR: The state’s health department had launched a helpline for the patients so that they could easily avail medicine at the government health centres or hospital, stated Health Minister Ashok Singhal. Addressing a press meet here today, Singhal said that 99 percent of medicines the doctors usually prescribe were available in the government hospitals and the patients need not procure these from the market. “If any patient, admitted in a government hospital, does not get the prescribed medicine, he can dial 986451430 to avail the drugs,” Singhal maintained. The minister reviewed the ongoing 500-bed hospital in the Silchar Medical College Hospital.
Ashok Singhal on Thursday visited the civil hospitals in Sribhumi and Hailakandi. In Sribhumi Civil Hospital, a number of patients alleged that the medicines the attending doctors prescribe here were mostly unavailable and they had to purchase them from the market. An apparently irritated Singhal asked for an explanation from the hospital authority.
In Hailakandi too, the minister lost his temper when he was apprised that the immunization programme in the district had covered much less than the target.
Later in the Silchar BJP office, Singhal was felicitated. The minister said that the election for the newly-formed Silchar Municipality Corporation would be held after the Durga Puja.
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