| Pvt clinics, drug stores loot general public | | | S T Haq
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Jan 14: The private clinics and drug stores are looting the public with impunity as the concerned department remains in slumber.
According to sources, there are thousands of drug stores and an equal number of clinics in the valley, but fact of the matter is hardly some of the licensed drug stores are selling standard drugs to the poor patients.
"The quality of drugs is beyond the understanding of common man, people purchase the drugs at the same Maximum Retail Prices (MRPs) that is shown on the stripes, syrups, injections, but one feels that there is no efficacy in them", said sources.
Sources said that, "it was the first most responsibility of the drug control department to check the drugs, whether they are counterfeit, substandard, or standard drugs that are being supplied in the valley by different pharmacist companies".
"In the past many drug policies were enforced in the valley, but hardly anything is implemented, all the orders remain on shelves or get delayed in its implementation, till the new orders are reissued for the satisfaction of general public, said sources.
They said that almost there are dozens of medical stores in summer capital of valley, nobody bothers to check them for different reasons whatsoever and the same sub standard drugs are supplied to other districts to make some profit, otherwise in the past many drugs were banned by the state government.
There are scores of drug stores in front of some reputed hospitals in summer capital including SKIMS, SMHS, Lal Ded and BJS, people in Kashmir valley have many times in the past complained that there is no 'check and balance' of drugs that are being sold by these chemists, sources informed.
Last time govt banned many drug combinations in JK as many drugs were termed as risky for human lives, unfortunately people are still unaware about these drugs, and one believes that drug control department has taken a back seat and have left the common people to decide about their own fate, said sources.
They said that one believes that the ban hasn't been enforced in Jammu and Kashmir, people purchase these costly drugs but hardly there is any efficacy in them.
Likewise of substandard drugs, there are scores of doctors that prescribe the drugs to the patients without knowing its nomenclature and with the result general public have lost their trust over the administration, sources further added. |
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