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Mumbai’s KEM Hospital was the only centre in the state that could enrol 10 patients during the past four months and dispense the drugs to four. Barring the city, almost all centres across the state screening for Hepatitis C and dispensing the medicines either turned away patients or couldn’t function as the staffers were pulled into Covid work, alleged activists. Worse, the handful of Hepatitis C patients who were started on the course in March had to stop treatment midway as they couldn’t get the remaining dose. A source told TOI the state is likely to have given preliminary estimation of 13,000 patients last year. The state received the first batch of Hepatitis C medicines from the Centre in October 2019.
This story is from the July 28, 2020 edition of The Times of India Mumbai.
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