NASHIK: Bytco and Zakir Hussain hospitals, which are both managed by the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC), ran out of
Remdesivir stocks two days ago and have not received fresh supplies from the
Nashik civil hospital yet. The civic officials have now got in touch with the Thane civil hospital and are bringing in a fresh consignment from there.
The matter was raised during the standing committee meeting by corporator Rahul Dive on Friday. He said an NMC corporator undergoing treatment at the Bytco hospital could not be administered Remdesivir as there was no
stock available.
According to the NMC officials, the Nashik district civil hospital supplies them with the life-saving injection required in Covid-19 treatment. “We need around 80-100 Remdesivir injections per day on average for patients in Bytco and Zakir Hussain
Covid hospitals. We have had no stock of Remdesivir for the past two days as we did not receive fresh supplies from the Nashik civil hospital,” said B Nagargoje, the medical superintending officer of the NMC.
“We have sent a special vehicle to the Thane civil hospital to bring the injections. We may get around 1,000 injections from there,” added Nagargoje.
When contacted, district civil surgeon Ratna Raokhande said they get Remdesivir from the state. “We have to make a demand in advance. Recently, we were told to get the injections from the government hospitals in nearby districts. Accordingly, we have been getting Remdesiver from nearby districts over the past two-three weeks and managing supplies in all the centres in the district. We make the supplies as per availability,” she said.
“The number of patients at the NMC covid hospitals is more. Sometimes it is difficult to provide the stock to NMC as we also have to manage Remdesivir supply to other hospitals in rural areas. We had told NMC to get Remdesiver from Thane and other civil hospitals,” said Raokhande.