Hospitals will have to send representatives to collect Remdesivir, TN changes drug supply protocol
The Hindu
The Chief Minister also cautioned hospitals to procure the drug to use it only on eligible patients.
The Tamil Nadu government on Sunday revised the protocol for the supply of Remdesivir directing hospitals treating patients with the medicine to procure it by sending their own representatives and doing away with the current system of patients’ relatives queuing up at designated sites to get the drug. The new system will come into effect from May 18. The manner in which the medicine was distributed leafing to chaos and long wait for the relatives of patients was changed following a meeting between Chief Minister M.K. Stalin with Health and Family Welfare minister M. Subramanian and health secretary J. Radhakrishnan.More Related News