The Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry has appointed 194 dispensers to rural hospitals countrywide under the Government’s vision to develop the health sector giving priority to rural development.

These dispensers play a major role in the health care system by issuing prescribed drugs, granting permanent employment and posting to rural hospitals and other State health institutes. They have already completed their two year training, reported Daily News.

Earlier, sanitary labourers served as dispensers in some of the State hospitals located in rural areas. The shortage of qualified dispensers was an immediate need in the State health sector, the report added.