HYDERABAD, June 8: Medicines worth Rs15 million have not been provided to the Hyderabad Civil Hospital by the import and inspection depot, Karachi. This is the share allocated to the hospital for the fiscal year closing on June 30. Hospital sources said on Wednesday medicines were available at the hospital but the depot could not withhold supply of medicines that was to be ensured as per the allocated share before the closure of the fiscal year.

They said due to lethargic attitude of people of the depot, full supply of medicines had not been completed yet with the result that the hospital management was borrowing those medicines which were not supplied by the depot from suppliers.

The hospital has already exhausted its cash allocation for medicines, amounting to 25 per cent of the total medicines’ budget, on account of non-supply of medicines.

The hospital gets 75 per cent of medicines from the II depot in two instalments. The hospital’s total budget for medicines stands at Rs66 million.

By January this year, the hospital had received medicines of only Rs10 million, close to 20 per cent, though the second half of the fiscal year had begun.