Inside only a yr, three chemist retailers within the Civil Hospitals of Sector 22 and Mani Majra and GMSH-16 have been closed, the reason is the excessive hire of those retailers and low gross sales. The retailers have been rented out for sufferers to entry medicines and different medical gear in and close to the hospitals, particularly in the course of the evening.
Nonetheless, solely the chemist store of the Sector 45 Hospital is operational, and in line with senior officers, it’s also prone to shut quickly.
To make medicines extra accessible, former well being secretary Yashpal Garg had initiated the method of opening chemist retailers in three civil hospitals — Sector 22, Sector 45, and Mani Majra — however excessive leases and restricted gross sales have closed these. Most Sector 22 Civil Hospital sufferers are pregnant ladies and are supplied free medicines and providers for deliveries and affected person admissions. Different sufferers visiting the hospital are few, resulting in low gross sales on the chemist store, the hire of which is Rs 10 lakh. Additionally, a number of personal chemist retailers across the hospital add to the rising competitors and low enterprise.
Equally, the hire of the chemist store on the Mani Majra Hospital can also be round Rs 10 lakh. With the division providing many free medicines to sufferers, the store right here additionally closed after a yr.
Two years in the past, after a chemist store at GMSH-16 was closed on account of encroachment, previous low hire and pending renewal of contract, one other store was opened on campus. However this store has been closed for the final 4 months on account of a hire of near Rs 17 lakh. At current, the hospital has two personal chemist retailers, one purposeful, together with a Jan Aushadhi Kendra. The method of floating a young for reopening the store has already began. As per a senior official, the state ought to give the retailers on a decrease hire to chemists, as most medicines are supplied freed from value on the hospital, and remedy for pregnant ladies within the gynaecology division is fully free.
In accordance with Dr Suman Singh, Director Well being Companies, earlier, 47 kinds of medicines have been supplied freed from value, and now the checklist has been prolonged to 175, and sooner or later, this will likely be elevated to 375. “So far as the hire is worried, we can not cut back it after a sure degree, as the worth relies on per sq. foot of land and is determined by the Division of Engineering. We’re conscious of the retailers being vacant, however we can not guarantee enterprise, and we’ll quickly concern tenders for the closed retailers,” says Dr Singh.
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