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Spurious Drugs flood J&K Markets due to vested interests of helmsmen: Harsh 7/27/2015 11:32:53 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, July 27: Harsh Dev Singh, Chairman JKNPP and former Minister today, lamented the drug policy having been formulated and announced in the state legislature in the erstwhile Congress-NC regime. He said that the Drug policy was announced after a lot of hue and cry raised in the Assembly and outside regarding unabated distribution of spurious drugs which not only endangered human lives but also had claimed several precious lives. He said that the public pressure coupled with GoI directions had forced the State govt. to announce the Drug policy primarily aiming at checking the growth of spurious drugs and adulteration of brands, rationalizing the number of drug licenses and rationalizing the prices and availability of medicine to the common man at affordable prices. Expressing grave concern over the criminal involvement of the govt. functionaries in the unabated flow of spurious and substandard drugs in the market, Harsh Dev Singh said that the recent reports of Drug and Food Control Organization (DFCO) duly published by the said organization bore testimony to the said fact. He said that the DFCO's report was alarming as it pointed out that in 2010-11, the number of spurious drugs was 21 which swelled to 138 during the year 2013-14. He said that with non enforcement of the drug policy there was every possibility of the number of spurious drugs having multiplied during 2014-15 and 2015-16 but the Health authorities had continued to maintain a studied silence on the issue. Urging upon the Chief Minister to intervene in the matter in view of the gravity of the issue, he regretted that it had become a practice in J&K to assert only after the tragedy had struck and the damage was done. Advocating strict punishment against quacks and traders dealing in substandard drugs, Singh urged upon the Chief Minister to ensure complete extension of Central Drugs and Cosmetics Act 2008 to the State which provided for stringent penalties for trading in spurious and adulterated drugs, setting up of special designated courts for speedy disposal of spurious drug cases, creation of new drug testing laborties, initiation of whistle blower scheme etc.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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