Bir Hospital, the country’s oldest health facility, is preparing to establish its own pharmacy in a week to provide drugs and health equipment in subsidised rates, a move that is expected to reduce the poor’s cost of health care.The hospital administration took a decision to this effect on Sunday. The Health Ministry has already decided to provide Rs3 million as seed money for its establishment.“We’ve been informed that the ministry has allocated the amount but we are yet to get it. Still, our preparations for the pharmacy will be over in a week,” said Dr Bhupendra Basnet, the Bir Hospital director.To help establish the drug stores where medicines are available at subsidised rates, the ministry has allocated over Rs300 million to various central and district-level hospitals.Since Bir Hospital receives patients referred from across the country, its OPD serves over 3,000 patients a day while there are more patients who buy drugs from the private stores nearby. - See more at: http://www.lightnepalvideo.com/videos/wrong-medication-given-to-patient/#sthash.GWzbxMKi.dpuf
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