In a unique initiative to make healthcare affordable Government of India has planned to start chain of pharmacies which will be open 24 X 7 and will provide popular medicines at much lower cost than the market price. This is an initiative of department of pharmaceuticals under the ministry of chemicals and fertilizers. Currently the Jan Ausadhi stores are available in following states ( Orissa , Madhya Pradesh , Punjab , Andhra Pradesh and are expected to start in other states, This is a welcome action but implementation and quality compliance to provide this service to the people from the segment of society who can not afford basic medicines should be sustained for coming times.
Except medical college institutes, no other healthcare facilities follow standard protocol in patient management. With JCI accreditation, now big healthcare players are forced to follow the treatment protocols. As long as these are not implemented, in most of the cases there will be no rationale in patient management. Doctors may prescribe a higher generation antibiotics though the disease can be managed by lower generation antibiotics. It takes several decades to bring in standards in Indian set up.
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