KGMU reeling under medicine shortage: Teachers Association write to Vice Chancellor
Not just patients, but the delays are also affecting its 570 faculty members, 9,000 other staff and 1,500 students.;
Lucknow: A shortage of medicines has hit the King George's Medical University (KGMU) in Lucknow.
Patients are reportedly waiting for almost a month to get the prescribed medicines from the medical university, as claimed by the KGMU Teachers’ Association.
In its letter to vice-chancellor Prof Sonia Nityanand, the association has complained of delays in obtaining medicines under the university’s ‘local purchase’ system, under which the hospital buys medicines not available in its pharmacies for patients and staff.
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Not just patients, but the delays are also affecting its 570 faculty members, 9,000 other staff and 1,500 students.
The association claimed as it even raised doubts over the quality of medicines supplied under this system. “We collected feedback from teachers and doctors, who pointed out delays in obtaining medicines via local purchase. Even the quality of medicines provided has been doubted,” the letter read.
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