Pinarayi flags problem of medicine shortage in Keralam’s govt. hospitals

Leader of the Opposition Pinarayi Vijayan has yet again flagged the issue of acute shortage of medicines in government hospitals, pointing to an audio message attributed to the Director of Health Services (DHS), which was reportedly circulated in one of the official groups in the Health department, as an evidence of the crisis.

In a Facebook post on Monday, Mr. Vijayan pointed to the voice message of the DHS which was circulated in a group of district medical officers and district programme managers, which acknowledged the medicine shortage and urged hospital superintendents to make emergency local purchases of medicine using hospital development society funds so that a crisis is averted.