Port Blair, April 24: CPI (M) has expressed concern over the non-availability of medicines in the Aush Hospital at Port Blair. In a letter sent to the Director of Health Services, A & N Islands, D. Ayyappan, Secretary, CPI (M) A & N State Organising Committee said that there is acute shortage of medicines in the Ayush Hospital at Port Blair. He said that almost all the medicines prescribed by the doctors are unavailable in the Ayush hospital. He said that patients are forced to purchase the Ayush medicines from private medical stores.  

Ayyappan said that patients from the lowest strata of the society are facing hardship to purchase medicines from private medical stores.  

Ayyappan urged the Director of Health Services to take immediate steps to ensure that all the medicines prescribed by the doctors in the Ayush hospitals are made available to the patients. He further demanded that the issue of non-availability of medicines in the Ayush Hospital at Port Blair may be got inquired into and appropriate action taken to avoid recurrence of such a situation in future.