Asthma patients and diabetics sufferwithout doxophylline and insulin as Ahmedabad Civil Hospital did not floattender on time, leading to delay in supply of medicines
Mohammad Qureshi, a farmer from
Devli in rural Ahmedabad, was exhausted: physically and financially. He had
been running around the whole day trying to arrange for money to get
anti-asthmatic medicine for his daughter. Though his 14year-old should have
been given the medicines by authorities at Civil Hospital where she is
admitted, Qureshi had to face a tough time because the hospital had not floated
its tender in time causing shortage of insulin and anti-asthmatic medicines.
Qureshi, 37, said, “My daughter
has acute breathing problem. Her condition deteriorated after it rained in our
village. We rushed her to Civil Hospital for treatment. She got better
following primary treatment. Then, the doctors refused to administer the
prescribed antiasthmatic medicine, doxophylline. After repeated pleas, a nurse
informed me that the medicine was not available in the hospital. They asked me
to get it from outside.“
The farmer spent more than Rs
2,000 an amount he could
