With the increase in pollution, medicine for respiratory patients has become dohyal
- When you go to the medical store, you will not find tablets, inhalers, nebulizers
- The condition of patients with asthma and allergic bronchitis worsens
- Now, due to pollution, masks must be worn
Ahmedabad may not be as bad as delhi from the perspective of pollution horrors, but from the perspective of breathing problems, pulmonologists at the medical stores expressed concern that the city is gradually moving in the same direction. Medical store owners say that even after Corona, there was a noticeable increase in breathing problems, but there has been a significant increase in this for some time now. As a result, medications for everything from allergic respiratory bronchitis to asthma have become expensive as well as expensive. Patients who go to the medical store at the last minute to get medicine or inhaler (pump) due to running out of medicine and do not take care of them in advance get the answer that they are now in stock.
According to a pulmonologist in the College of Commerce area in this sense, every year the number of respiratory patients increases with the arrival of winter. But this time, along with those patients with allergic bronchitis or asthma, the condition of the patients has also become uncontrollable with routine medicine. On the other hand, the Air Quality Index (AQI) in various areas of Ahmedabad has also increased to such an extent that, first due to Corona and now due to pollution, masks are mandatory.
Demand for medicine, inhalers, nebulizers increased
Medicines like Asthalin tablets, Abifyline, Derifyline, Acebro 3D are usually prescribed regularly for shortness of breath, wheezing, asthma etc. Even these drugs are now available in medical stores only if they are ordered four to five days in advance. The defense of the medical store is that it is now out of stock. In addition, the lack of pumps (inhalers) such as Asthalin, Seroflo, Aerocort, Foracort has also occurred. In some cases, if breathing problems are not controlled by tablets and pumps, a nebulizer must be kept. But the pods used in this nebulizer and the nebulizer kit have also become expensive and rare.
Also out of stock in online medical stores
Along with digital payments, many net savvy families are also turning to online medical stores. If there is no rush or if the medicines must be obtained in advance, this is how they are ordered. But due to the extent to which the problem of respiratory patients in Delhi has become worse, now in Ahmedabad these sufferers are getting answers from stock in online stores too.
Even medical stores are rarely open after 11 pm!
The uniqueness or specialty of the city of Ahmedabad is that here in the city, food is available anywhere, anytime, but if there is a medical emergency, one must look for small medical stores that are open all night. Usually every tenth shop is a medical store but they are rarely open after 11pm. In Gandhinagar, there is such a situation that if a respiratory patient has problems at night, he has to go to the hospital. No doctor is open or no medical store!
