Patients to get free medicines from tomorrow

Patna, Jun 30 (UNI) The Bihar government would distribute medicines free of cost from tomorrow at different primary health centres, district hospitals and medical colleges.

An official release said to prevent the misuse of free medicines, a provision for making payment of nominal registration charge had been made.

The charge to paid by patients for registration varies from Re 1 to Rs 5 at different levels of hospitals.

The government had increased allocations ten times from the last year under the concerned head.

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