| J&K introduces e-tenders for procurement of drugs, medicine | | | Early Times Report
srinagar, June 2:The government has set up Jammu and Kashmir Medical Supplies Corporation Limited (JKMSCL) to purchase drugs, medicines and fluids through e-tendering for the year 2015-16. The e-tendering has started functioning and first ever online e-tender for drugs, medicines and fluids for the year 2015-16 amounting to Rs 150 crore approximately has been uploaded.
Minister for Health and Medical Education, ARI Trainings, Choudary Lal Singh said that the government gave special impetus to make JKMSCL, a fully functional, autonomous and self sustained organization with the mandate to procure, warehousing and distribution of drugs, medicines, surgical, sutures, equipment, machinery and other allied items by getting every batch of medicine tested through accredited drugs testing and analytical Laboratories across the country.He said that the e-tendering process will be transparent and there will be no role of any officer of the Health and Medical Education department in the purchase of drugs and other equipments adding that Union Ministry of Health will provide every possible help in this regard. The Minister said that the aim of establishing a self-sustained autonomous organization under the direct control of the government is to provide quality medicine at reasonable price to the patients of the state. He said it was also aimed to procure only standard drugs by the corporation, which has been entrusted with the responsibility of Standardization of Essential Drugs of different categories for Health Institutions and also to ensure foolproof arrangements of testing, so that the quality of drugs supplied to the patients is of desired quality at reasonable rates, besides relieving the Service providers (Head of Department and Doctors) from additional burden of procurement and distribution process. |
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