SRINAGAR: The government in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday admitted that there is a nexus between some doctors and medicine companies.
The admission has come just months after it was revealed that the government had approved spurious, fatal drugs for use in hospitals.
No government official has been sacked over the issue so far.
Taj Mohiuddin, the Medical Education minister, said the nexus involved only who ran private clinics. “Though maximum medicines are available in the hospitals but the doctors doing private practice prescribe medicines of particular companies to get monetary benefits,” he said.
“Such doctors do not have any conscience and get easily involved. Now the government has decided to be tough against these erring doctors and more over the medicines will be subjected to a thorough testing.”
Such doctors do not have any conscience and get easily involved. Now the government has decided to be tough.
The High Court has also sought the government’s response about action against doctors who accept gifts and monetary benefits from pharmaceutical companies.
Stating that the government does not have any problem if the companies produce quality medicine, Mr Mohiuddin said sale of substandard medicine will not be tolerated.
“The doctors should also exhibit their responsibility by prescribing only the genuine medicine to the suffering patients,” he added.
When asked whether the government is likely to take action against Medical Representatives who motivate doctors to prescribe particular medicines, the minister said: “The job of medical representatives is to make the doctors aware about new medicine of their companies.”
“So blaming them is unfair, but the matter of the concern is the doctors who blindly, just for the sake of some benefits, play with the life of innocent patients.”
