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Funds constraint badly hits E-Aushadhi scheme
Unless a No Stock Certificate (NSC) was approved from the Commissioner of Health and AP MIDC officials, it is difficult to purchase medicines locally
Vijayawada: The much-hyped State government’s pet project e-Aushadhi, an online system, to make medical and health department IT-enabled, has been giving sleepless nights to medical and health officials in various hospitals in majority of districts in the State. Budgetary restrictions and political interference were adding to the woes of the health officials, hitting the regular functioning of the hospitals.
Speaking to The Hans India, a senior medical and health official from Krishna district said, “It is turning into a Herculean effort to get medicines, once the allocated quantity of medicines in any given quarter get exhausted.” Indents for additional allocations have been routinely rejected citing budgetary restrictions during the last quarter of the financial year, the officials pointed out. Further, “Unless a No Stock Certificate (NSC) was approved from the Commissioner of Health and AP MIDC officials, it is difficult to purchase medicines locally, the official added.
In new capital region of Amaravati in Guntur district medical and health officials have to cope up with not only shortage of medicines, but also, with the political pressure. “We are asked to conduct more and more health camps in Thulluru mandal without providing required medicines. Now we are forced to show the medicines used in medical camps in regular Out Patient Register (OPR), pointed out a health official. On the top of it, 12 new Primary Health Centers (PHCs), each with cost Rs 25 lakh has been inaugurated. But, no medicines and funds were allocated to them. This has led to criticism of the district officials from various quarters, another district official of the health department opined.
He said though an indent was raised 20 days ago several hospitals in the district were yet to get the same. To add to their problems, politicians were putting pressure on them to supply 50,000 ORS packets for two public meetings which will be attended by the Chief Minister during last week of April.
When asked Medical and Health Minister Kamineni Srinivas said that he would direct senior officials of medical and health department to rectify all the short comings and ensure that there would not be any problem in the supply of medicines.
