The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) on Monday appealed to DG Health Punjab to constitute special teams of drug inspectors to visit medical stores so that the medical stores violating the law could be sealed to avoid a repeat of incidents like Shahadara.
In a press statement, PMA Central Joint Secretary Dr Shahid Malik said that the sale of medicines to the public by the medical stores owners without prescription of properly qualified doctors was a crime and was the main cause of 11 deaths by the consumption of cough syrups in Shahdara Town.
He added that that it was unfortunate in Pakistan all medicines were being sold across the counter without any proper prescription of a doctor. He said that anybody could go to the market and buy any medicine. He appealed to the media to play their role in highlighting this problem.
genuine appeal of PMA ,Drug inspectors can control this pracice.
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