UP Govt Hospitals to get separate medicine counters for journalists soon
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak announced on Tuesday the establishment of separate medicine counters for journalists in all state-run government hospitals.
According to the PTI report, Pathak, who holds the portfolio of the Health Department, issued the order in this regard to the principal secretary, an official statement here said.
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Pathak issued the order after a delegation of Uttar Pradesh's accredited correspondents committee led by its president Hemant Tiwari met him and apprised him that earlier there was an arrangement of separate counters for journalists in government hospitals but it was discontinued.
"Due to long queues in general counters at government hospitals it became difficult to procure medicines from there," Tiwari said, news agency PTI reported.
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