Mumbai: ‘Drug shortage at KEM Hospital will be tackled soon’

The shortage of drugs in KEM Hospital, Parel, is not acute or perennial, said senior BMC officials on Saturday. However, steps are being taken to improve the stocks and increase the local purchase capacity, they added.

Updated On Mar 27, 2022 at 05:34 PM IST

MUMBAI: The shortage of drugs in KEM Hospital, Parel, is not acute or perennial, said senior BMC officials on Saturday.

However, steps are being taken to improve the stocks and increase the local purchase capacity, they added.

On Friday, there was an outcry as there was a shortage of essential items at KEM.

However, BMC additional commissioner Suresh Kakani, said he had conducted several rounds of talks and found that the complaint was limited to a solitary case in the hospital’s emergency medical services.