Dhanvantari Medicine Shops receive enormous response

Central Chronicle News
Bhilai, Oct 22: Government’s venture to provide generic medicines through Dhanvantari generic medical stores has been extremely successful. On the second day, these shops witnessed excellent footfall of the customers. A local resident Hitendra Kashyap, who came to buy medicine at the drug shop located at Durg Bus Stand, stated that he needs to purchase blood pressure medicine for his parents. The budget for the month was around Rs 600. He bought a month’s medicine here for just Rs 282. As the expenses on medicine had reduced, he is planning to spend the remaining amount on fruits. In this way, he will be able spend exclusively for their health benefits. Rakhi Sahu, who reached Shastri Market in Bhilai to get medicine, stated that her neighbor told that she bought multi-vitamin generic drug the other day and got it very cheaper price. Rakhi too reached the shop as after recovering from corona, she was taking multi vitamin to increase immunity. Here she found that was wide range of herbal products. She also bought herbal products. Rakhi stated that buying herbal products in Chhattisgarh is always a profitable deal because the forests of Bastar are full of forest medicines and only pure goods will be available here. Sonu Chandrakar, who reached Mother’s Market to buy medicine, said that he had seen Aamir Khan’s Satyamev Jayate and had heard that generic medicines are of the same formulation and are very cheap and are equally effective. Still, he was unable to get the same in the city. The government did a great job to open generic medicine shops in the most important places of the city. Now he no longer needs to visit the hospital to get generic medicine. There is a generic drugstore in every important locality of the city. Secondly, these shops have been started under the supervision of the government. This also gives assurance about the quality of drugs.
Manish Khatri, who is selling generic medicines in Durg, said that they are keeping all types of generic medicines. They are providing all types of generic medicines to the citizens at great discounts. On Thursday, a large number of people purchased medicine and the footfall of customers increased unexpectedly on Friday.
This innovation of the state government in the health sector was very effective for many reasons. The first generic medicines were found at important places in the city and people did not need to search these shops and buy medicines. Secondly, the discount was substantial. The third reason is that due to the interest of the state government, people are confident about the quality. The fourth reason is the availability of herbal products. Thus a good range of medicines are available here.