Bhopal: Remedicivir and tocilizumab injection patients, who are suffering from severe patients suffering from corona, will have to buy it themselves. MP Public Health Supply Corporation had issued a tender to purchase 20 thousand Remedisivir and five thousand Tosilizumab injections. Even after 12 days of deciding the company, the purchase was not ordered. It turned out that the government has now pulled its hands from the purchase of injections, but no officer is ready to open his mouth about this.
State government is providing injections in other states
Remdicivir injection is available in a market for Rs 2800 to Rs 3200. The patient takes five injections. Currently, these injections have to be purchased by the patients themselves. In such a situation, patients’ relatives have to buy injections from the market at expensive prices. Injections are not available in the market. This requires contacting the supplier directly. They are supplied in two to three days, while the governments of several other states including Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu are providing both injections free of cost.
Five companies came forward
Five companies came forward to supply Remdisiver. In this, a company called Mylon was willing to supply this injection at Rs 2304 per violin. Four companies make this injection. They are priced in the market from 2800 to 3200 rupees. Strange argument of the officers The strange argument of the officers of the Health Department is that it has not yet been proved how effective this injection is for the corona patients, so they have decided not to buy. The reality is that Corona-infected doctors are self-injecting it.
In addition to two infected doctors at Hamidia Hospital last week, a doctor’s wife has been injected with Remedicivir. The cost of the injection was also borne by the hospital management. Due to the condition no interest in tocilizumab supply was shown by the government. Tenders were issued to buy five thousand violinzumab injections, but it was placed in front of the company that penalty would be imposed if not supplied within 21 days. Because of this no company joined the tender. 29 thousand 400 rupees a violin injection is available in the market. Patients take two injections.
How injections works
Dr. Adarsh Vajpayee, assistant professor (medicine) at LN Medical College, explains that after infection, inflammation comes from the substance released from white blood cells. Both of these are injected to reduce inflammation. Ajay Dubey, the supplier of Remedicivir in the state, said that he is getting calls for 60 to 70 injections daily from all over the state.
They say
Both injections are administered to patients only on the advice of a doctor. Many patients are asking for these injections themselves, which are not suitable to be given. Why does the corporation prohibit the purchase. I will talk to the authorities in this regard.
Dr. Prabhuram Chaudhary, Health Minister, MP
