In an indication that all is not well in the health sector, the state government has detected that over 12% of medicines brought into Maharashtra from other states are sub-standard. A joint drive by the Mumbai police and the BMC has also helped nab 12 bogus medical practitioners in Mumbai.
In an indication that all is not well in the health sector, the state government has detected that over 12% of medicines brought into Maharashtra from other states are sub-standard. A joint drive by the Mumbai police and the BMC has also helped nab 12 bogus medical practitioners in Mumbai.
In a written reply to a question by Amin Patel (Congress-Mumbadevi) and others in the state legislative assembly on Monday, food and drug administration (FDA) minister Girish Bapat admitted that in January 2015 a large number of medicines (12.26%) being brought into Maharashtra from outside states and sold in medical shops were found to be sub-standard. Bapat added that action had been initiated in court in 67 cases against the producers of such non-standardised medicines, who are located in other states.
In a written reply to Baburao Pacharne (BJP-Shirur) and others, medical education minister Vinod Tawde said legal action had been taken on January 22, 2015, against 12 bogus medical practitioners in a joint drive by the Mumbai police and the BMC.
In January, the Mumbai police and the BMC health department took action against such bogus doctors in Shivajinagar, Mankhurd and RCF, and in February, this was done at Vikhroli Parksite, Juhu and Dahisar, he added. This was done under the relevant provisions of the Maharashtra Medical Practitioners Act, 1961.
Committees have also been set up at the district, taluka, municipal corporation and municipal council level to zero down on such illegal medical practitioners and take action against them.
Tawde said a case had been lodged against one Shamkant Dashrath Bhandari at Shirur in Pune district in January 17, 2015, for examining patients despite lacking the necessary educational qualifications and registration, and he was arrested. The case is being investigated and medicine samples have been sent for examination by the FDA.
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