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NEW DELHI: The Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Ashwini Kumar Choubey has stated that all life saving and emergency drugs including crystalloids, as well as investigation and diagnostic procedures, are provided free of cost to all patients attending the casualty at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).

“As regards hospitalized inpatients, all medicines and surgical consumables are provided free of cost in case of BPL patients, for the duration they are admitted,” clarified Choubey in a written reply in the Lok Sabha.

Patients who are poor and do not hold a valid BPL card are also provided all medicines  and surgical consumables required for their treatment without any charge on recommendation of treating doctors and as ascertained by the Medical Social Service Officers, the minister added.

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