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Publish Date : 15-Apr-2015

The Maharashtra government has initiated a move to curb wastage of medicines and corrupt practices. The government plans to get all medicine procurement processes under one pool by conducting tendering for medicines online.

The public health department and medical education department at present procures medicines worth Rs 350 crore, of which Rs 75 crore is incurred by the latter for their hospitals and health care centres using various methods. With no proper coordination between both the departments, there is duplication of medicines, which results in stock lying unused.

Additionally, the government even plans procurement of a database of medicines that are given for free under the Maharashtra List of Essential Medicines (MLEM), so the annual procurement gets distributed between the two departments.

Plans are to completely overhaul the medicine procurement system, in consultation with chief minister Devendra Fadnavis. Both the departments will be procuring the quantity of generic drugs required on year basis through an online tendering process, which will set in transparency and ensure only the required quantity is obtained, thus reducing chances of duplication or wastage.

Also, the medicines used in various national health programmes and emerging infections are to be added to the existing list of 422 essential medicines, while those that are not in use will be removed.

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