The Puducherry unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has urged the government to ensure that emergency medicines are available round the clock at the pharmacy operated by the Amudhasurabhi Cooperative Society in the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (Jipmer) campus.
In a statement, R.V. Swaminathan, general secretary of BJP said that patients visiting Jipmer especially from rural areas were forced to buy medicines from private pharmacies as the Cooperative pharmacy was closed during the night.
He said that emergency and life saving medicines were not available at Amudhusurabhi pharmacy and patients had to buy them from outside at a higher cost.
The government should provide emergency drugs at a subsidized cost to people, he added.
