This also includes drugs taken up under the national health mission mode programme, like zinc and iron-folic tablets. In its endeavor to streamline drug supplies, Bihar health minister Mangal Pandey reviewed the drug position at the BMSICL on Thursday. have to be completed before we supply the drugs,” BMSICL managing director Sanjay Kumar Singh told HT. The drug purchase scam had derailed supplies, severely affecting healthcare at government facilities. Hamstrung by lack of drugs and consumables at government health facilities, doctors had been at the receiving end of patients and their attendants.

Source: Hindustan Times November 24, 2017 11:37 UTC