Maharashtra FDA allows hospital patients to buy medicines from outside
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The Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently issued a notification allowing hospital patients to buy medicines from outside. They were earlier restricted to buying medicines only from in-house pharmacies of the hospitals.
The move will have a direct impact on the patient’s expense for treatment as they were earlier under pressure to buy certain branded drugs, which are expensive only from the hospital premise.
The notification will be implemented now. As a first step forward, the hospitals are required to display the regulation using signboards at the hospital pharmacies.
In another major move, the patients have to be provided with a valid prescription of medicines, disposable etc to the patients as per the rule.
The new drive of FDA will be first implemented in the government hospitals like Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) and the Indira Gandhi Government Medical College (IGGMC). These hospitals are reported to have never issued a prescription, but now every patients in OPD or admitted, will be given proper prescription.
The move will have a direct impact on the patient’s expense for treatment as they were earlier under pressure to buy certain branded drugs, which are expensive only from the hospital premise.
The notification will be implemented now. As a first step forward, the hospitals are required to display the regulation using signboards at the hospital pharmacies.
In another major move, the patients have to be provided with a valid prescription of medicines, disposable etc to the patients as per the rule.
The new drive of FDA will be first implemented in the government hospitals like Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) and the Indira Gandhi Government Medical College (IGGMC). These hospitals are reported to have never issued a prescription, but now every patients in OPD or admitted, will be given proper prescription.
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