Psychiatric drugs at easy prices delivered on time during lockdown
The Hindu
With the help of India Post, Chennai-based disabilities institute has been promptly sending the medicine to beneficiaries across Tamil Nadu
Recently, intellectually-challenged Subulakshmi’s family spent a few anxious days unsure if the psychiatric drug they placed an order for would reach them on time. The family live in interior Tenkasi and due to the lockdown, travel to Chennai to collect the drug — available at an subsidised price at the National Institute for Empowerment of Persons with Multiple Disabilities (NIEPMD) — was out of the question. “She cannot miss taking the medicine — if she does, she gets epileptic seizures,” says T. Mahalakshmi, Subulakshmi’s sister. Prior to the lockdown, a caregiver and the beneficiary would make a trip to NIEPMD for therapy and also buy the medicines.More Related News
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