The menace of supplying spurious drugs to hospitals has been hanging fire for a long time. In early April, we had taken up in these columns the serious issue of spurious drugs supplied to Government hospitals and dispensaries in the State. Out of 156 drug samples taken by the team of CDSCO from various hospitals and pharmacies in the State, results of 50 of them have been received which show that 27 drugs were sub-standard. This is based on the reports received from the Government Analyst Central Drugs Laboratory Kolkata and Government Analyst Drugs Laboratory Chandigarh. The question arises that when the matter was brought to the notice of medical authorities, why did they not take any action to control the sale and supply of sub-standard drugs to unsuspecting people. Either there is a nexus of sorts among the elements with vested interests or that the medical authorities are least interested in performing their official duty with a sense of responsibility. It is simply lamentable that concerned authorities do not move even after they have been pilloried for earlier lapses. The Department of Health is playing with the health of the people. They cannot have the leave to do so and will have to be answerable to the civil society.
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