Last Updated: 25 Sept 2024

532 types of different medicines available FREE to all patients^[1]

Applicable across all 23 District Hospitals, 41 Sub Divisional Hospitals and 161 Community Health Centres in Punjab^[2]

Patients at Punjab Government Hospitals do not have to spend anything from their pocket^[2:1]
i.e. SAVING the out-of-pocket (personal) expenditure of patients

¶ Features^[1:1]

• Earlier Govt had an essential Drug List comprising of 278 drugs
• Additional 254 more drugs, including both essential and non essential, have been added to the list

Local purchase, if required

• For local purchase in case of non-availability, civil surgeons can spend up to Rs 10 lakh while senior medical officers have been authorised to purchase medicines worth Rs 2.50 lakh. Director can purchases of up to Rs 20 lakh

• At least one quotation must be sourced from Jan Aushadhi/AMRIT Pharmacy for local purchase

• It was launched on 26 Jan 2024

References:

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1. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/107159765.cms ↩︎ ↩︎

2. https://www.babushahi.com/full-news.php?id=178463 ↩︎ ↩︎