RESTRAIN FROM THE MOVE TO ISSUE QUALIFIED PERSON CERTIFICATES

RESTRAIN FROM THE MOVE TO ISSUE QUALIFIED PERSON CERTIFICATES

The Federation of Indian Pharmacists’ Organisations (FIPO) demanded the Central Govt. to restrain from the move to issue Qualified Person (Q.P) certificates to the salesmen employing in the medical shops and to abandon the discussion between the Central Petroleum and Chemicals Minister Ramvilas Paswan and the drug traders organization, AIOCD for this purpose, in a joint statement issued by the National Vice President G.K.Harishchandran Nair and Kerala State General Secretary A.S.Rajeevkumar.

Drug Traders are frequently trying to materialized their agenda of getting free trade facility of drugs through non technical persons. All countries in the world, including the under developed countries enforced various parameters to curb the unsafe and unscientific handling of drugs by non technical persons to safeguard the public health, wherein in India such legislations are very feable and hence,the occurance of various health hazards. Due to the free handling of drugs through unsafe hands leads to irrational administration of drugs as well as abuse and that surmounts the incidence of morbidity status, especially in Kerala where resistant epidemics are often, which is a alarming situation. The service of the Pharmacists who is mandatory in the places storing and selling drugs in India and in all other countries, is namesake in Kerala, the largest market of drugs.

Certain drugsa like Rosiglitazone, Nimuselide etc.,are still available in Indian market, because it is stated that there are no evidences of harm in India! Profit oriented mafia in the drug industry and trade are too eager to evade the existing laws to regulate the drug trade by pressurizing the Central Govt. for the implementation of the Q.P. certificate which is quite against the WHO directions and the modalities adopted by other countries in the world. The member organizations of the FIPO, Kerala Govt. Pharmacists’ Association, Kerala Private Pharmacists’ Association and Kerala Self Employed Pharmacists’ Association, declares that a nationwide agitation will be organised against this inhumane attitude of the Central Govt.