Mumbai: Here’s a shortage of certain life-saving antibiotic injections in Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) run hospitals. BMC-run hospitals provide certain medicines, capsules and injections free. This practice has almost stopped since January this year. \r\nNow, patients at hospitals like KEM, Nair and Sion have to buy ampoules worth up to Rs 1,000-2,000 themselves. The BMC prepares a list of medicines and equipment, called schedule, every year that are to be supplied free of cost. \"A schedule is a list of drugs or equipment by medical experts to be procured by the BMC\'s health department. This schedule lasts for two years, after which lists are revised,\" said a senior doctor at a BMC-run hospital. |
