Tag: Niramaya

Bhubaneswar: Lodging a stiff protest against suspension of five doctors for dereliction of duty, the Odisha Medical Services Association (OMSA) today demanded immediate revocation of the suspension order threatening that it would resort to cease-work strike from December 13. The medicos association informed that doctors in Jagatsinghpur district will wear black badges on duty as […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government on Monday increased the number of drugs to be provided free of cost to patients under the Niramaya scheme. The number of medicines under the programme has been increased to 558 from the existing 499. Odisha Chief Secretary, Aditya Prasad Padhi after a review meeting has also directed health secretary PK Meherda […]

Chief minister Naveen Patnaik might have launched the free medicine distribution scheme ‘Niramaya’ with much fanfare, but the government hospitals in the State are not yet ready to don the mantle of distributing the medicine to the needy

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today announced launching of ‘Niramaya’, a free medicine distribution scheme in all the government hospitals of the state from May 1. Patnaik made this announcement while inaugurating the new office building of Odisha State Medical Corporation (OSMC), the agency that would look after free distribution of medicines among the […]