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Jan Aushadhi scheme faces practical problems 4/18/2015 12:24:22 AM Arun Singh Early Times Report Jammu, Apr 17: Although the State Government's order for prescribing generic medicines to patients has been welcomed by many people, there are practical problems and challenges in its implementation. The Jan Aushadhi scheme was launched in 2013 by Government of India in order to make available all essential, quality, generic medicines at affordable prices through special outlets known as Jan Aushadhi stores. "There is long list of basic problems in the implementation of this scheme. The first such obstacle is insufficient drugs available in Jan Aushadhi stores as there are only 73 drugs against 361 essential drugs listed under the Jan Aushadhi scheme," sources told Early Times. They said there are only eight such stores across J&K wherein these drugs are presently available. In Jammu, one such store is functioning in SMGS Hospital while another would be opened in Government Medical College and Hospital Jammu (GMC&H) under the banner of Red Cross. "It will be difficult to prescribe medicines with restricted 73 drugs particularly in medicine, surgery, orthopaedics, and oncology," said the sources, adding that compromising on drugs can prove life threatening. There is also a strong risk of generic prescriptions to litter outside the hospitals which are likely to therapeutically and generically replaced with spurious and low quality costly drugs. "Further, such therapeutic replacement of drugs is going to encourage mushrooming of spurious drug prescription by dispensers in our state. India and particularly our state are already facing a big challenge of spurious drugs," said the sources. "There is high possibility of conflict of interest being generated. These stores under guidelines are to be run by NGOs/institutions/cooperative societies which would be identified by the State Government," they added.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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