Patients in Pune asked by hospitals, COVID care centers to arrange Remdesivir injection from outside ANI | Updated: Apr 12, 2021 16:03 IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], April 12 (ANI): Crisis over the shortage of Remdesivir injection in Maharashtra continued on Monday with relatives of some of the patients in Pune alleging that hospitals and COVID-19 care centers are asking them to arrange the drug from chemist shops located outside.
People, in large numbers, were seen staging a protest outside a chemist shop in the Shukrawar Peth area over the shortage of Remdesivir injection. My father-in-law has been admitted at a COVID-19 care center. Doctors have made him call us for Remdesivir injection, a family member of a COVID-19 patient Madhuri Parekar said.
Updated Apr 12, 2021 | 22:13 IST
As patients complained of lack of availability of the anti-virus drug, Pune district received 6000 injections of Remdesivir on Monday. Remdisivir shortage in Maharashtra | Photo Credit: Times Now
Mumbai: As many cities in Maharashtra continued to struggle with the shortage of Remdesivir, the state government asked companies to ramp up the production of the anti-viral drug. The government has also asked the companies to reduce the MRPs of the drug to Rs 1200-1300. Companies manufacturing anti-viral drug Remdesivir should double the production and decrease its MRPs to Rs 1200- Rs1300, Rajesh Tope, Maharashtra Minister was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.