Date:09/07/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/07/09/stories/2008070959810300.htm

Kerala - Thiruvananthapuram

Drug Information Centre at MCH

Staff Reporter

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A 24-hour Drug Information Centre at the Hospital Information Centre in the medical college hospital (MCH) here will start functioning from Wednesday.

Set up by the College of Pharmaceutical Science and Drugs Control Department with assistance from the World Bank, the centre will be formally inaugurated by Minister for Health P.K. Sreemathy at the surgery lecture hall.

The financial assistance provided by the World Bank is under the Food and Drug Safety Capacity Building project. Patients, health workers and the public can get all drug-related information from the centre directly and through telephone.