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Odisha Health & Family Welfare Department has directed the private medicine stores operating inside the premises of public health institutions to vacate within 15 days

in State News April 26, 2024 Comments Off on Odisha Health & Family Welfare Department has directed the private medicine stores operating inside the premises of public health institutions to vacate within 15 days 278 Views

Bhubaneswar:26/4/24: The Odisha Health & Family Welfare Department has directed the private medicine stores operating inside the premises of public health institutions to vacate within 15 days.

The direction has been issued by Commissioner-cum-Secretary of Health & Family Welfare Department Shalini Pandit based on the verdict dated 19th April 2024 of the High Court passed in a bench of cases which were filed by the owners of private medicine stores running within the campus of Public health institutions.

Pandit wrote a letter to Superintendent/ Dean & Principal, MKCG MCH, Berhampur; Director, VIMSAR, Burla and CDM&PHOs of Angul, Balasore, Bhadrak, Bolangir, Cuttack, Gajapati, Ganjam, Jagatsinghpur, Jajpur, Kalahandi, Kandhamal, Kendrapara, Keonjhar, Koraput, Malkangiri, Mayurbhanj, Nabarangpur, Nayagarh, Puri, Sambalpur, Sonepur, Sundargarh, and Nuapada directing them to serve ‘vacation notices’ to Campus Medicine Shops affording therein a time of 15 days for vacating the premises.

Only Government-run Niramaya medicine counters, which provide all types of medicines free of cost, will operate inside Government hospital premises, the Health Department said.

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Ashok Palit has completed his graduation from Upendranath College Soro, Balasore and post graduation from Utkal University in Odia Language and literture.. He has also carved out a niche for himself as a scribe of eminence after joining the profession in 1988. He is also an independent media production professional. He brings loads of experience to Advanced Media, Ashok Palit as a cineaste has been active in film criticism for over three decades. As a film society activist, he soared to eminence for his profound commitment to the art film appreciation and aesthetics of cinema. His mode of discourse is often erudite but always lucid and comprehensible marked by a perfect acumen so rare in the field. A film aesthete with an immense fond of critical sensibilities, he wrote about growth and development of odia cinema in New Indian Express, The Times of India, The Hindustan Times, The Asian Age and Screen. He has been working as an Editor for Cine Samaya from 2002-2004.. He had made solid contribution on cinema in many odia Dailies and weekly such as Samaj, Prajatantra, Dharatri, Samaya, Satabadi, and weekly Samaya.
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