MoU sets out to establish more community pharmacies in public hospitals

Comlementary services: (From left) Lee handing over a mock cheque to state Health deputy director (management) Ahmad Abdul Hamid and Dr Zulkifli at the ceremony in Kuching, as Sykt Ramaida chief executive Datuk Mazelan Bugo looks on.

KUCHING: Sarawak General Hospital (SGH) Employees Cooperative Bhd will open community pharmacies in government hospitals across the state to increase patients’ accessibility to medical supplies not listed in Health Ministry’s drugs or hospital formularies.

State Health director Datuk Dr Zulkifli Jantan said patients who preferred medicines of particular brands instead of generic drugs provided by government hospitals could obtain them from these pharmacies.