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| Health Deptt sans policy mechanism for testing drugs | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 12: In absence of a policy mechanism for testing drugs procured by the Health Department, the patients in the Government Hospitals are reportedly administered drugs without testing as per norms putting their lives at risks.
Sources told Early Times that health institutions procure drugs/ medicines in bulk through approved Rate Contracts and from the local market and a policy mechanism of testing of the drugs procured is required to be put in place to ensure quality of the supplies before these are administered to patients.
"Ironically no policy guidelines were put in place for testing of drugs before these are administered to patients by the Health Institutions. Though the Rate Contracts finalized by various Purchase Committees for procurement of drugs provide for furnishing of the Analytical Reports by the suppliers, however, it has been reported that there was no mechanism in place for referral of samples by the health institutions for testing to the Drug Controller or to third party accredited laboratories," they said further adding that the denial of testing drugs by the health institutions from the Drug Controller or to third party labs creates suspicions and raises several question marks on the intentions of the officials at the helms of the affair ostensibly to get some monetary benefits out of the deals.
They further said that at many instances where large scale drugs procured by the Health Department had been issued for supply to patients before they were lifted for testing by Drug and Food Control Organization. The possibility of nexus between the officials of the Health Department and the suppliers can be gauged from the fact that the role of the Drug Food Control Organization which is purely regulatory in nature and has been restricted to lifting of samples on random basis by means of regular surveillance, they informed.
Although department claims that Controller, Drug Food Control Organization had been made vibrant and proactive to ensure optimal testing of drugs/ medicines to the best of its capacity but fact of the matter of the fact is that with the lack of policy guidelines for ensuring third party testing of drugs' medicines procured was an area of concern which had resulted in issuance of sub-standard drugs/ medicines for supply to patients, they informed. |
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