Jaipur: Sparsely populated Jaisalmer is on the final spot within the record of districts in the very best implementation of the free medicine scheme run by the state authorities. The well being division has launched a listing of districts based mostly on their efficiency in November. While Jaisalmer is within the final place, Bharatpur and Jalore have been second final and third from the final within the record.

The well being division has fastened standards for issuing rating of the districts within the free medicines scheme which embody, availability of medication having lower than buffer inventory, variety of days through which drug distribution centres (DDC) didn’t work within the final month, common affected person voucher rely in final month, variety of non-availability hits at DDC in final month and inventory out in opposition to annual demand.

In Jaisalmer, solely 40 hospitals, group well being centres, main well being centres and sub-centres are purposeful and are run by the state authorities.

“Our district is sparsely populated, and one has to cover long distances to reach such places. In such a situation, the OPD at most of our clinical establishments is not much. The Annual OPD of all our 40 clinical establishments is 1.25 lakh per month on average. Also, the population is just 8 lakh in this sparsely populated district. Since our OPD is not much, it has affected our ranking in the free medicine scheme. Availability of drugs is not an issue,” mentioned Dr BL Bunkar, chief medical well being officer (Jaisalmer).

Neighbouring district of Jaisalmer, Bikaner remained on the prime of the record, whereas Dausa and Rajsamand are in second and third place for finest implementation in November. However, Jaipur, which was within the 14th place in October, has slipped two factors to safe the sixteenth spot.

Pali has made outstanding enchancment because it jumped from the twentieth spot in October to 4th place in November by enhancing the implementation of the free medication scheme. The state authorities is making efforts to enhance the free medication scheme throughout the state and added new medicine to the record of current free medication schemes.