While surfing on net I came across the line. ‘On sale of 1,000 samples of the drug, get a Motorola handset. On sale of 5,000 samples get an air cooler. On sale of 10,000 samples get a motor bike’’ This is in reference to recent article “It’s seriously flawed”by Samiullah (Greater Kashmir 29th January). The article clearly reveals the mind set of the people who oppose the drug policy. The author starts with the line that “We cannot  keep   90% of  population  at the  mercy of generics  whose quality control  is not ascertained  as per the  norms  of the International Drug Associations’’ .
Talking about International Associations I think our respected author has skipped this. Member governments are urged, `to enact new, or enforce existing, legislation to ban inaccurate, misleading or unethical promotion of medicines, to monitor drug
Promotion, and to develop and implement programmes that will provide independent,
Non-promotional information on medicines.” Resolution Rational Use of Medicines (WHA 60.16) Adopted by the 60th World Health Assembly
People in Jammu and Kashmir are at the mercy of unscrupulous doctors and drug companies. Competition to sell medicines in the loosely regulated industry means doctors regularly medicate patients up to the eyeballs. However, the root of our problems too often lies in the absence of laws, as well as in a failure to enforce them.
Abdul Hanan
M.B.B.S student (D.Y Patil)

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