Within the wake of a current seizure of a considerable amount of faux and substandard medicines from a warehouse in Titagarh, the West Bengal authorities goes to concern a strict advisory to all of the pharmacists within the state.
Sources within the state Well being Division stated that in a current high-level assembly, it was determined that any wholesale drugs provider or pharmacist discovered promoting faux medicines would have their licence cancelled.
“The drugs retailers shall be instructed to placed on show the QR codes of the medicines in order that the shoppers can have an concept if the medicine they’re buying are real or not. They will even get data of about 300 kinds of suspected medicines,” an official of the Well being Division stated.
“The Drug Management Basic of India has already despatched QR codes to the state Well being Division. The Directorate of Drug Management in West Bengal has already revealed telephone numbers so that individuals can immediately name these numbers to attract the eye of the authority if they think any strips of drugs or bottles to be faux,” the official stated, including the numbers are 033 2225-2213/ 033 2225-2214.
A number of weeks in the past, the West Bengal authorities sought the cooperation of the Bihar and Uttar Pradesh governments in its investigation of spurious medicine recovered from varied locations, together with in North 24 Parganas and Malda, stating that many such medicines have been made in these two states.
Final month, a considerable amount of spurious and substandard medicines was recovered throughout a raid by state and central drug management officers at a warehouse in Titagarh, North 24 Parganas.
In February, spurious medicines value round Rs 17 lakh have been seized from a godown in Howrah’s Amta space. The workplace of the company was sealed, and its proprietor arrested.
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In Kolkata, authorities had uncovered a Rs 6.5-crore racket dealing in life-saving medicines that have been discovered to be spurious. At the least 44 kinds of low-quality and spurious medicines have flooded the market, in response to sources.
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