Publish Date: | Sun, 06 Mar 2022 03:49 PM (IST)
Bilaspur. Generic Medicine in CG: Medicines are being made available at subsidized rates, but it is still out of reach of common people. The Municipal Corporation has started Dhanwantri Medical Store in Sims and District Hospital, but even after this, doctors are not prescribing generic medicines to the patients. While prescribing the medicine, half the generic and half the branded medicine is being written in the patient’s prescription.
Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel has started the scheme of Dhanwantri Medical Store to provide medicines to the people at affordable rates. It is managed by the Municipal Corporation. At the same time, with the opening of the medical store, all the government doctors have been directed at the government level to prescribe generic medicine and give branded medicine to the patients only when needed. But, doctors are not following these rules.
Especially the doctors of the biggest government hospital of the division, SIMS and the district hospital are not paying any attention to it. After treating the arriving patients, half of the medicines being written in the prescription are generic and half branded. Patients have to bear the brunt of this, because due to this, people are being forced to take branded medicines at expensive prices, despite the availability of cheap generic medicines.
Medicines are cheaper by 60 to 65 percent
Generic drugs are available at 60 to 65 percent less cost than branded drugs. If cetirizine is available in the market for Rs 18, it is getting between Rs 4 and 5 in generic medical stores. Similarly, all types of life saving medicines are also available at very cheap rates.
More than 400 types of medicines are available
The responsibility of supplying medicines to these shops has been given to CGMSC. In these, 400 types of general and life saving medicines are being supplied. In which surgical equipment is also available. Despite the large range of generic drugs available, it still remains out of reach of patients.
Not prescribing medicines for this reason
MRs of various pharmaceutical companies are present in Sims and District Hospital at all times, who provide facilities and packages to doctors to increase the sales of their respective company’s medicines. In such a situation, most of the doctors are working to give branded medicines instead of generics to the patients in order to earn extra money. Sims management has also directed its doctors to prescribe generic medicines only, but the doctors are not getting any effect from this order.
He said-
From time to time, the medicines prescribed by the doctors are checked in the OPD. If still these branded medicines are prescribing, action will be taken against such doctors after conducting surprise inspection.
Dr. KK Sahare, Dean, Sims Bilaspur
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