Launching the 100th Janaushadhi Kendra at Bengaluru South on Tuesday, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Mansukh Mandaviya said that the first priority of the government is to provide cheap and better quality medicines to all citizens.
On the third day of the week-long celebrations of Jan Aushadhi week, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya and Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw flagged off a Jan Aushadhi Train (Chhattisgarh Samparkranti Express) from the Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway Station here on Friday.
Union Ministers Mansukh Mandaviya and Ashwini Vaishnaw flagged off a Jan Aushadhi Train (Chhattisgarh Samparkranti Express) in New Delhi on Friday, said a press release by the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers.
Department of Pharmaceuticals is celebrating the fifth Jan Aushadhi Diwas on March 7 and events have been planned in different cities across the country, starting from March 1, to raise awareness about the Jan Aushadhi Scheme, said the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers on Monday.
Highlighting the lack of proper testing of quality medicines in Gambia, the country s High Commissioner to India Mustapha Jawara on Friday laid thrust on the importance of quality and reasonably priced medicines in the Western African country.