Salyan Hospitals Face Three-Month Medicine Shortage

Salyan. Free medicines to be distributed in hospitals and health institutions of Salyan have been in shortage for three months. There is a shortage of medicines for high blood pressure, diabetes, mental illness, and family planning in the hospitals here.

Patients have said that due to the shortage of medicines, chronic patients are forced to buy medicines from private medical stores at a high price. As the provincial government has not sent free medicines yet, there is a shortage of medicines used by chronic patients in the district hospital Salyan and health institutions of the local level.

Kapurkot Rural Municipality's Health Branch Chief Subas Hamal said that there is a shortage of medicines not only for high blood pressure, diabetes, and mental illness but also for family planning in all health institutions of the municipality.

Darma Rural Municipality's Health Branch Chief Yagya Bahadur Basnet said that regular consumers with weak financial status are deprived of regular consumption as they do not get free medicines in the health institutions. He said that not only this year but every year, due to the late sending of medicines, there is a shortage of one medicine or another.

Dr. Arjun Budhamagar, Chief of the Health Service Office Salyan, said that the provincial government sends 98 types of medicines to be distributed free of charge from the hospital, but since they have not been sent this time, there is a shortage of medicines including high blood pressure, diabetes, and mental illness.

He said that patients who come to the hospital for treatment have to be made to buy from medical stores and hospital pharmacies.