Many govt Ayurveda dispensaries in Kerala operate without pharmacists, doctors forced to do dual job of diagnosis & dispensing
The plight of patients visiting the Ayurveda dispensaries
located in rural areas in Kerala is getting worsened day by day as many of the
centres are operating without pharmacists to dispense medicines to the
patients.
In these dispensaries, the doctors are forced to do the
dual job of diagnosis and dispensing of drugs from morning to afternoon. The
health centres which are running without pharmacists are functioning in the
interior parts of the hilly district of Idukki, Palakkadu, Pathanamthitta and
the backwaters district of Alappuzha.
Medical officers in-charge of these dispensaries allege
that despite repeated complaints made to the directorate of ISM about the
sufferings of the doctors and of the plight of the patients, no positive step
was taken by the authorities to solve the issue. A doctor from Alappuzha
district said his dispensary is surrounded by backwaters, but the patients
coming to the dispensary in the country boats every morning have to wait for
medicines for long hours. He said there are 35 dispensaries in Kerala
functioning without ayurveda pharmacists. Here, doctors are giving medicines to
the patients. Every day more than 100 patients visit a dispensary in a rural
area.
When contacted, director-in-charge of ISM Kerala, Dr K S
Preeya said the vacancies have been reported to the public service commission
and the government will initiate steps to fill up the posts. According to her,
there are 817 dispensaries and 130 hospitals in the Ayurveda sector in the
state.
Dr Jayan, district medical officer at Thiruvananthapuram
said DMOs will usually make temporary arrangements with contractual pharmacists
to work in the pharmacies of the dispensaries. But a medical officer from
Alappuzha said in anonymity that his dispensary is run with only two staff
including him. The other one is the part-time sweeper.
According to him no Ayurveda dispensary in Kerala is
working in full compliance with the staff pattern of ISM. Apart from the
medical officer, a dispensary must have one Ayurveda pharmacist, one attender
and one sweeper.
To a query, he said although the dispensaries are
suffering, all Ayurveda hospitals have sufficient number of staff.
Source:
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