Ministry of Health & Family Welfare informed the Parliament on August 9 that the Central Government has taken the initiative for Free Supply of Essential Medicines in Public Health Facilities in the country.
Salient features of this scheme are:
- The Scheme is aimed at providing affordable health care to the people by reducing out of pocket expenses of medicines
- The initiative aims to increase share of public health in health care from a current level of 25-30% to around 50%
- This initiative will promote rational use of medicines and reduce the consumption of inessential, unscientific and hazardous medicines
- The initiative is based on the Tamil Nadu model where free medicines procured in bulk by the Tamil Nadu Medical Services Corporation (TNMSC), in generic name, directly from the manufacturers is supplied through an IT enabled supply chain management system to the public
- An MoU would be signed with the States to implement this scheme
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