Acute shortage of medicines in district hospital

DHQ Six Tehsil Level Hospitals 34 Primary Health Centers Six GRD Dispensaries in Leh District have been built to provide health facilities to 2.4 lakh people which are functional and functioning with maximum number of doctors and paramedics staff. There are buildings and all the facilities from the boundary wall, but due to the economic situation or political instability of the country at the moment, there is a severe shortage of medicine in all these centers, even insulin is not available, not even snake and rabies dog bite vaccines. Basic life-saving medicines are not available in the hospitals, apart from common antibiotic medicines, due to which the patients who come here face serious problems. There is absolutely no point in building such beautiful buildings unless the government responsibilities According to them, they don’t get free medicines from the hospitals, the physicians just sit there and write the prescriptions and they have to go to the medical stores to buy the medicines where there are mostly fake medicines and they are not even checked by the drug inspectors of the hospitals. Outsourced laboratories are also numerous but are neither registered nor checked by any institution to which the patients travel, their relatives who come in contact with them and every patient who visits these primary centers. From this to the DHQ hospital, they are not given medicines there, but only basic first aid is available to them and they are paid a salary. Along with life-saving drugs, all necessary seasonal disease prevention drugs, child protection and other essential drugs should be ensured in these hospitals so that the people who bring them to these hospitals should be visibly present. It is likely that they are poor people who belong to even a little middle or upper class, they turn to private institutions and get their treatment from there. In view of the poor economic situation of the country, it is the primary responsibility of the national and provincial governments to provide medicines to those who live below the poverty line and always get their treatment from government hospitals. To fulfill this, the district administration should spend all its energies and ensure the supply of medicines to them from its own resources or provincial resources so that the patient who comes here does not go with an empty prescription, but the medicine is also given to him from the hospital. By going, the objectives of establishing these hospitals will be fulfilled and those who visit these hospitals with this hope will also be able to benefit.