Patna,(BiharTimes): When the media reported in mid-March that there were no gauge, cotton, soap, syringe etc––not to speak of medicine––in Bihar’s premier Patna Medical College Hospital it was attributed to shortage of fund at the fag end of the financial year.

But now 40 days into the new financial year it is still without these basic facilities. The truth is that the PMCH––which some people jokingly call Patient Marna Chahta Hai––has been facing shortage of life saving medicine for the last six months, yet nothing is being done. Patients do not even get dexona, deriphyllin etc. Instead of getting free they had to depend on touts to purchase drugs at three or four times of the actual price.

Not to speak of critical patients there is nothing even to treat minor injuries in the hospital.

However, Dr Amar Kant Jha Amar, who joined as the superintendent of PMCH only last week hoped that the situation would improve as the government has made financial allotments for the purchase of drugs.