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| Sales of medicines and surgical items | | No govt control over | | R.B. Suri | 2/15/2018 9:33:22 PM |
| Due to the serious and concerted efforts of the governmental authorities in the country and the states as well, the life expectancy has been increased to the maximum extent thereby reducing the death rate. Now the human lives are being protected by the government in respect of every field of life. Widows, disabled, destitute, senior citizens, orphans, deaf and dumb feel more protected as number of schemes stand already taken up for them where under medical care, nutrition as also financial aid in cash or by credit to their respective bank accounts are being given due care and attention by the government.
All this could be possible only with the regular medical and financial assistance measures already taken up by the government for them where under medical care and nutrition as also aid in cash or by credit to their bank accounts are being provided effectively. Their complaints are being given due care and attention by the government for redressal.
The regular medical and financial assistance to them by the government and other NGOs. have yielded the results. On the contrary, pertinent to mention on this score that now a days unhealthy competition is being made by the Pharmaceutical/ Surgical items traders To promote their sales, they have displayed huge Sign and Glow boards on their shops and sales outlets in and out side of the hospitals and medical clinics with regard to granting of huge discounts on sales medicines and surgical items ranging from 10% to 60%.
This is very strange because of the fact that the Chemists and the Druggists are not only engaged in the unhealthy business but also it appears that there is a big nexus between them and the producers and manufacturing pharmaceutical and the surgical companies spread over the length and breadth of the country. These companies are of the well reputation and the substandard ones also doing the said so called business.
This does not mean that the open market of sales medicines should go as it is at the moment without any control on it.
To check this all non sense / menace, there is a dire need to book all the delinquent Pharmaceutical and Surgical traders who are in this malpractices trade under the prevail ant laws of the land. They should not go scot free in accumulating the hard earned money of the poor and the down trodden towards their hefty kitty and bank accounts. The exploitation of the poor and the down trodden needs to be checked on war footings and all these malpractices are required to be made to halt at this stage only.
If all this non sense is not checked in time, there is a threat to increase in life expectancy as also saving the precious lives of the human beings. Statutory regulatory bodies are there like - National Pharmaceuticals Pricing Authority (NPPA), Drug Controller of India, State Drug Controller and other related governmental agencies but painfully it is to state that they are just non serious and playing the role merely as the mute spectators and it appears that they have allowed the involved traders to undergo such like activities in the sales of medicines and surgical items in the open market across the country.
This matter of the nexus is treated as the grave threat to this trade which needs to be taken care of by the government at the earliest by invoking the powers under the laws of the land.
Pharmaceutical / Surgical items companies are enjoying the total freedom in fixing the irrational prices of their products at the cost of poor people of the country. They are playing their innings detrimental to the interests of the society as a whole. National Pharmaceuticals Pricing Authority (NPPA) , it appears that it is not commanding its authority over these companies in the real sense but remaining mum over the issue involved in the right earnest. Usually the printed prices of the medicines and surgical items are not based on permissible parameters and hence these companies are enjoying the full latitudes of the authority. GOI should keep an eye open over this ongoing unhealthy business at the poor people of the land. In this context, it is suggested that the government should adopt the firm policy of checking this unhealthy and dangerous business in looting the poor and down trodden . There is a conclusive evidence that the government has given these traders a free hand in looting the public at large as there is no price control over sales of medicines and surgical items which is going detrimental to the interests of poor community and society as a whole. But instead the corporate pharmaceutical sector engaged in the pharma and surgical trades are enjoying a lot and minting the hard earned money of the poor and down trodden and depressed lot due to ailments. The poor, down trodden and depressed lot are subjected under compulsions to pay the hefty costs to the doctors / surgeons in order to get rid of the medical problems. They have no other option except to come at the dictats of the doctors / surgeons as also of the pharmaceuticals manufacturing companies in the country. These companies do fix the rates of the various medicines produced and manufactured by them according to their whims at the cost of poor and down trodden. If the involved traders are offering so much discounts i.e. ranging from 10 to 60 percent on the sales of medicines and surgical items, this means that lot of margin of profit is there in this trade which needs to be checked at the earliest otherwise the country will be at stake in the days to come. If one goes by analyzing the present prevailing situation in context of rural / muffasil / urban areas across the country - urban people being literates do bargain with the chemists /druggists on this score whereas rural people being not so much literates do pay the prices of the medicines / surgical items as written over thereon the wrappers or the containers. Since they are not educationally forward they are being exploited by these traders in the open markets across the country. This is very bad indeed. This is happening in the length of the country but the government organizations and the agencies are keeping their criminal silence over the important issue involved and the poor and down trodden are being continued to be exploited and on the contrary the pharmaceutical / surgical companies operating in the country are being benefitted a lot at the cost of poor and down trodden Rich consumers of these products even don't mind to pay the printed MRP prices to the traders.
Sales of medicines and the surgical items are left to the mercy of the captioned traders. Our country is a developing country wherein more than 50 % of the total population of 132 crore live below the poverty line who cannot afford to spend much on these items to save themselves from various ailments.
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