10/22/2016
Nitesh Sangral
Early Times Report
Jammu Oct 22 : It seems State Health Ministry’s claims
remained confined to papers and announcements only as they have knelt down
before strong ‘nexus’ between doctors, officials and pharma companies forcing
to close medical fair price shops.
Moreover, officials of the department have never showed
interest to promote and increasing the stock of drugs in the shops at cheaper
rates.
Pertinently, Generic medicines are very cheap and the
price of the same drugs is nearly three times costlier in the general medical
stores.
Reliable Sources told Early Times that
central-sponsored scheme, fair price shops, called Jan Aushadhi Drug Stores
(JADS), were to setup in Jammu to provide quality medicine to the patients at
cheaper rates, but the influential Pharma lobby with the help of doctors along
with department officials did not allow the implementation the scheme in Jammu
due to which the shops are going to close.
“After huge hardship, the space was allotted by the
concern authority and the shops has been setup Government Medical College and
Hospital (GMCH) and Shri Maharaja Gulab Singh (SMGS) Hospital Jammu with aim to
provide quality medicine to poor patients at cheap rates, “Sources also said,
adding that but due to poor interest of Red Cross Society Jammu and officials
of the concern authority, the shops have been failed to take off.
Sources alleged that thanks to uncaring attitude of
State Health department has left scheme for dying by helping the ‘nexus’. One
of the major reasons for defeating the scheme in Jammu is the unwillingness of
doctors to prescribe Generic medicines.
Preferring anonymity, an official told that most of
attendants prefer to visit other medical stores to buy the costly medicine .
“There are only 40 varieties of drugs available in the
stores as shops provide few drugs such as antibiotics, analgesics,
anti-pyretics and combination of analgesics and anti-inflammatory drugs,
manufactured by five public sector drug companies— Indian Drugs and
Pharmaceuticals Limited, Hindustan Antibiotics Limited, Bengal Chemicals and
Pharmaceuticals Limited, Karnataka Antibiotics and Pharmaceuticals Limited and
Rajasthan Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Limited, “official claim.
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