The Centre would soon open 300 pharmacy ‘Affordable Medicines and Reliable Implants for Treatment’ (AMRIT) outlets in different parts of the country to provide affordable medicines to the people at a discount rate of 60-70 per cent. This was stated by the Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Anupriya Patel while inaugurating Uttar Pradesh’s first AMRIT pharmacy outlet at Hospital of BHU in Varanasi Friday.
Union Minister said the pharmacy outlet – ‘Affordable Medicines and Reliable Implants for Treatment’ (AMRIT) – is an effort of the Narendra Modi-led NDA government to reduce the expenditure incurred by patients on treatment of cancer, cardiovascular and other diseases.
On these AMRIT outlets, medicines will be available for the common people at a discount rate of 60-70 per cent, she said.