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Mumbai deluge hits SRNH drugs supply
Mumbai's deluge, after throwing life out of gear in the commercial capital of the country, has now made its effect felt in Allahabad. The supply of the major life saving and emergency drugs to the Swaroop Rani Nehru Hospital have got delayed due to floods in Mumbai. The SRN Hospital gets the major supply of injectables, antibiotics and analgesics from Mumbai and Nagpur. But due to floods, the supply has got delayed by over three weeks .
Mumbai's deluge, after throwing life out of gear in the commercial capital of the country, has now made its effect felt in Allahabad.
The supply of the major life saving and emergency drugs to the Swaroop Rani Nehru Hospital have got delayed due to floods in Mumbai.
The SRN Hospital gets the major supply of injectables, antibiotics and analgesics from Mumbai and Nagpur.
But due to floods, the supply has got delayed by over three weeks resulting in a serious crisis of life saving and emergency drugs at the region's biggest referral hospital.
According to the officials, the order for medicines, worth Rs 25 lakh, was placed about one month back to the contractors in Mumbai and Nagpur. The stock was expected to arrive about three weeks back but due to season's worst deluge in Mumbai the transport services got affected and this delayed the supply to the hospital. Due to delay in supply major life saving drugs and antibiotics have become totally out of stock at the hospital.
The hospital staff informed that the stock of normal saline and ringer lactate has run out, whereas injectable like cifotaxim is expected to last for another one or two days.
"There is also no stock of antibiotics like gentamycin. The essential drugs like amoxycilin, ampicylin, aceloc has also run out of stock.
There is only stock of Cipro-TX for patients with diarrhoea like condition. The stock of savlon and beetadin liquid is also available but for some reason the hospital store has decided to issue only from the next week. Most of the analgesics and pain killers like voveron has also finished," said a senior nurse, not wanting her name to be quoted.
MLN Medical College Principal Dr PC Saxena admitted that they were facing acute shortage of medicines at the hospital. The medicine's order, worth Rs 25 lakh was placed about a month back, to the suppliers in Mumbai and Nagpur. But this time the supply has delayed by over two to three weeks, probably due to floods in Mumbai. "However, the stock is expected to reach within the next few days," he added.
