Re: Over the counter Medicines @Kiran

[Guest guest]

Dear Kiran,

I completely agree with your concerns regarding un-requlated sells of OTC

medicines in India. Unregulated pharmacies in India often dispense medicines

with no prescription and that's the reason people manage to obtain the medicines

which require prescriptions over the counter at pharmacies.several studies have

already reported deficiencies in over the counter medicine use.

Unlike in developed economies, where pharmacies retain all prescriptions they

dispense, weaker regulations in India do not compel Indian pharmacies to hold

on to prescriptions even for prescription only medicines or those that can cause

serious side-effects, such as antidepressants.

There is need to strengthen the regulations so that all the pharmacies must

retain all the prescriptions and also report sale of prescrption only medicines

to governmental surveillance agencies.

Regards,

Dr. Mangesh Bankar

Nagpur

From: kiran chaudhari <kiranchaudhari7@...>

Subject: Over the counter Medicines

" netrum group " <netrum >

Date: Monday, 31 January, 2011, 10:37 PM

 

Dear Mangesh,

But how do the OTC issues are governed?

Are they really practically controlled in India?

We know, most of the medicines are available OTC illegally in India.

Pharmacies don't care to check for the prescriptions, and sell whatever is

demanded.

what about that?

what can be done for that?

kiran chaudhari