kolkata to ensure uninterrupted supply of medicines to its patients medical college and hospital kolkata is getting a huge room ready to house the pharmacy for now the room measuring over 1000 square feet is on the sixth floor of the hospitals mother and child hub the hospital will start procuring medicines soonswasthya bhawan has sanctioned sufficient funds to procure new stock of medicines the process is already on we expect a good stock of medicine to be in the store within the next three days said dr indranil biswas medical superintendent and viceprincipal of medical collegea fire on wednesday morning had destroyed medicines worth over rs 5 crore the hospital had procured the stock recently and it would have lasted about a monththe hunt for a space to house the temporary pharmacy started right on wednesday after minister of state for health chandrima bhattacharya assured the hospital authorities that funds would be released immediately to prevent scarcity of medicinesas the groundfloor pharmacy was located opposite the emergency wing it was easily accessible to emergency patients especially at night so a separate medicine counter was opened in the emergency department itself on friday this one will cater to only emergency patients at night it will remain open from 5pm till morning added the msvpmeanwhile using a dedicated intrahospital software medicines are being procured on loan from other hospitals some essential drugs and consumables like saline bottles are being requisitioned from the fair price shop attached to the hospital the hospital has been authorized to reimburse patients in case they have to buy medicine from outside said a swasthya bhawan sourcedespite the hospitals claim of no crisis for medicine many opd patients complained of not getting their full requirement the queue for medicine outlet on the second floor of the opd building got longer on friday i got only one out of the five drugs prescribed by doctors at the diabetes opd said akbar ali