Thiruvananthapuram, Thursday 27 November 2008: Health Minister P K Sreemathy today told in the Kerala Assembly that there was no mechanism available now to monitor the quality of medicines, worth Rs 1,800 crore a year, being sold through 15,000 outlets in the State.
”It is shocking to learn from the Minister that there is no mechanism to monitor the quality of medicine being sold in the State,” Opposition Leader Oommen Chandy said.
In the case of medicine supplied through State-run hospitals, the government had placed repeat orders from companies that had supplied substandard medicines in the first quarter of the year, he claimed.
”This is a serious situation as the government is not bothered about the well being of the common man. There is no attempt on the part of the government to study the side effects of substandard medicine that had already been distributed to patients,” he said.
- By KOL News , Written on November 27, 2008
When ministry berth is granted some other consideration and not merit, this happens…And association with enemy helps as well.
There is No Doctor available in some Health Centres in Villages (eg. Cheleri, Kolachery)at Health Minsiter’s Home District Kannur. Patients are waiting to Doctor, Health centre staff don’t know that doctor will come or not. Nurse is also coming only for signing in attnendence Register. Doctor is on private practicing at his own clinic. This is happening in “GOD’s OWN COUNTRY”. Medicine is not getting to the patients, So “No mechanism available to check medicine quality” is not a matter