Khader wants medics to keep drug business clean

 

Bengaluru: Health and Family Welfare Minister U.T. Khader has warned that the licenses of medical shops which sell spurious medicines and medicines with narcotic substances as content, would be cancelled.

 

Inaugurating a training programme for drug controllers here on Friday, Khader said that many medical shops were selling spurious medicines without a prescription from doctors.

 

The need of the hour is for the drug control department to keep a tab on medical shops, which sell such medicines and those which have narcotic substances in them, he said. 

 

The drug controllers also should check if the medicines available in the market were good for health or not, he said.

 

Meanwhile, State Advocate General Ravivarma Kumar suggested that the drug control department should also educate people against superstitions. “Most people approach quacks due to the superstitions they believe in.

 

Along with keeping a tab on spurious drugs, the drug controllers should also keep a tab on quacks who wreck the health of gullible citizens,'' he said.

 

Drug Controllers Association President Srinivas who was present, assured that the amount of spurious drugs in the state was not  as much as was feared.