Good news: The facility will start within a week
Haldwani. There is good news for patients at Sushila Tiwari Hospital. Patients coming to the opd of the hospital will get the medicine free of cost. Sushila Tiwari Hospital did not provide medicines for free for patients coming to the OPD till now, but now the patients are going to get the benefit of this facility.
Principal of Government Medical College Dr. Arun Joshi said that after the instructions of the government, now the system of giving medicines free of cost to the patients coming to the OPD of Sushila Tiwari Hospital is going to start. This system will be implemented within a week. In the first phase, distribution of more than 50 types of medicines will be started. After which the work of distributing other medicines will also be started as per the requirement.
Compared to other government hospitals, Sushila Tiwari Hospital offers cheaper treatment. But there is no system to give free medicines to patients coming to the OPD. Patients coming to the OPD had to buy medicines from outside, there were many patients who were not able to buy medicines from outside. In such a situation, patients will get a lot of relief after getting free medicines.
Sushila Tiwari Hospital in Haldwani is the largest hospital in Kumaon. More than two thousand patients come to the OPD daily. Patients coming from remote areas of the mountain will get the most benefit from the distribution of free medicines, who could not buy medicines from outside due to lack of money.