DCA flags violations in 180 medical outlets throughout inspection drive throughout State

The Telangana Medication Management Administration (DCA) performed a particular inspection drive on Wednesday to establish violations within the sale of prescription medicines throughout retail medical outlets within the State.

The drive was aimed toward tightening oversight on the sale of Schedule H and Schedule H1 medicine, which embody habit-forming substances, abortion kits, and antibiotics that may solely be distributed towards a sound prescription issued by a health care provider, stated a launch.

Throughout the Statewide operation, officers detected a number of non-conformities in 180 retail medical outlets. These included the sale of Schedule H and Schedule H1 medicines with no legitimate prescription, stocking of expired medicine, and failure to take care of or produce prescription drug registers, gross sales payments, and buy payments.

The officers additionally reported irregularities within the dealing with of invoice copies and cases the place prescription medicines have been being offered with out the presence of a registered pharmacist. Present-cause notices have been issued to all 180 institutions.