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UT health department suspend the chemist’s licence for a day for selling wrong drug
Chandigarh, 19 November:
The licence of a private pharmacist named “M/s Kumar & Company” was stopped by the UT health department on Friday for a day due to allegations that they sold a woman the “wrong” medicine.
According to UT Health Secretary Yashpal Garg, “A woman complained that M/s Kumar & Company had given her an eye drop that really was subtly different from that which her doctor had recommended. It was discovered that a pharmacist sold the medication “Atpine Eye Drop” despite being forbidden from doing so without a doctor’s prescription for that specific “salt”.
The pharmacist had sent a letter to the UT health department in response to the complaint, stating: “The grievance is mala-fide because the aforementioned eye-drop was sold to the customer on her own desire and after she inquired for that particular medicine.”
The statement or response of the private pharmacist during the proceedings before the pharmaceuticals controller-cum-licensing body indicated that the licence favoured the “demand of the client” over the act, regulations, instructions, and recommendation of a doctor, according to the UT health secretary. This reasoning may have very negative consequences if it is adopted. Accepting this reasoning will send the wrong message and deter real accusers because there are so few legitimate grievances made and even when they are substantiated, claims are ignored.
A licence cannot be employed to sell a medicine with a higher salt than the one that the practitioner has prescribed. The customer’s insistence cannot serve as a defence or reason and should not be tolerated.
There will be no sales or purchases at the company’s Sector 11D location on November 25.
