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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (NewsVoir) Given its importance and responsibilities, Karnataka State Medical Supplies Corporation Limited (KSMSCL) is one of the key government agencies.
Despite all the challenges especially during the pandemic and its aftermath, KSMSCL wants to stay focussed on its job as mandated by its vision “To provide universal and equitable access to quality drugs and state of the art medical equipment & supplies to all and converge efforts with the larger goal of the State to provide quality healthcare services for all.” The main objective of KSMSCL is procurement/storage/supply of essential drugs and consumables.
Sources in KSMSCL said there is transparency while procuring medicines from various pharma industries.
“It is open to all.
We take stakeholders’ opinions before arriving at a decision.
We also have committees (comprising senior officials) to evaluate bidding process.” They said, “To ensure quality, we test samples selected randomly from all batches of drugs supplied to ware houses.