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New Delhi : Pharmacists better known as “Swasth ke Sipahi” of Pradhan Mantri Jan Aushadhi Kendra are deliverying essential services and medicine at doorstep of patients and elderly under Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana (PMBJP) of the Government of India.
Working as part of Pradhan Mantri Jan Aushadhi Kendras (PMJAK), they are extending essential services by making available quality generic medicine at affordable prices to the common people of the country and the elderly persons at their doorstep to fight Corona pandemic. This is supporting the government’s initiative of practicing social distancing.
PMJKs are being run by Bureau of Pharma PSUs of India (BPPI) under Department of Pharmaceuticals, Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers, Government of India, with an objective of providing quality and affordable healthcare to anyone in need. At present, more than 6,300 PMJAKs are functioning across the nation covering 726 districts of the country, according to a PIB release.
In order to stop the spread of Coronavirus, Government of India declared a lockdown of 21 days i.e. up to April 14, 2020, across the country. In such times, all PMJAKs are playing a key role in ensuring availability of essential medicine and delivering them at the doorstep of the people.
As informed by BPPI, recently one of their “Swasth ke Sipahi” shared his experience. He told about an elderly woman who called him at PMBJK, Pahadiya, Varanasi, asking for help. According to the Pharmacist, the elderly woman lives with her husband at Varanasi alone and had exhausted the stock of her daily medicine. Consuming these medicine regularly is critical to maintain her body functions. The pharmacist could not stop himself from helping the couple. He collected the medicine, as she asked, and set out to deliver the same at her house. Since then, pharmacist has been delivering medicine to the sick and elderly at their doorstep.
One central warehouse in Gurugram, two regional warehouses at Guwahati and Chennai, and around 50 distributors are working towards ensuring a surplus supply of the medicine to all the kendras, across the country. In order to control the supplies of the medicine,a strong SAP based end to end point of sales software has been set up to avoid any stockout situation. Mobile application “Jan Aushadhi Sugam” is also available for common public to locate their nearest kendra and availability of medicine with its price. The app. can be downloaded from Google Play Store and I-phone Store.
In the lockdown period, Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana (PMBJP) is generating awareness through informational posts on their social media platforms to help people protect themselves from Coronavirus.