Buying Medicines Online? Are We Creating the Twentieth Century Ravana?
15 October, 2015
- Ravan kidnapped Sita ji, a new ' Avatar' of Ravan is trying to kidnap your and your familiy's health and safety. Please act now to safe guard your family.
- Off late many online shopping site are advertising and encouraging customers to buy medicines from them online like other commodities.
- It is against law and patient safety norms to sale medicine in such a way, these sites are even selling prescription only medicines online.
- Sale by prescription only medicines can only be sold on production of a valid prescription, written and signed by a qualified registered medical practitioner as consumption of these medicine without proper supervision can be injurious to health.
- The online shopping sites are allowing patients to upload scanned copies of their doctor's prescription and are selling medicines against it.
- There is no way of authenticating these prescription as in this age of " digital India" any one can photoshop a doctors prescription, write whatever medicine, forge doctor's signature, up load and buy medicines.
- This arrangement has made it very easy for drug addicts to buy medicines like sleeping pills and narcotics. Medicines like sleeping pills and narcotics are not sold unless prescribed by doctor as use of these medicine by drug addicts or drug peddler is very common. Also consumption of these medicine in improper dose can result in DEATH of the patient.
- Now that all these drugs are available on line, the door are open for drug addicts, they can have what ever they want.
- Such availability of drug will spoil the young generation as they will use these drugs for RAVE PARTIES, DATE RAPES and even for harming others.
- Certain medicines are to be stored at under controlled environment, that is controlled temperature, controlled humidity, away from bright light, these sites who are selling medicine on line, how will they ensure these conditions while the medicine are in transit, that in post or in courier ? It is very obvious that by the time such medicine reach you, they will be completely spoiled, taking such spoiled medicine can cause death.
- As per the current retail medicine sales laws, the license to sale medicines is given only to a qualified pharmacist or doctor, and this license is given to carry out sale in a premises where facilities for proper storage, clean and dust free environment is provided.
- It is compulsory that on production of prescription by patient, it is read and verified by a qualified person and only then medicines are dispensed.
- No sites or companies selling medicines online can assure compliance of the above procedure to its customer.
- If some one buys medicines on a " photo shopped" prescription and takes a overdose to commit suicide, who will be responsible? Obviously law will blame the poor doctor who's prescription has been forged.
- All over the world sale of medicine online is banned, it is surprising how our country's law makers are allowing it?
- Inspite of being a poor country, India is the biggest consumer of antibiotics. It has happened due to indiscriminate prescriptions, unwise consumption and dispensing antibiotic without proper prescriptions by retail outlets, the unfortunate effect is the incidence of antibiotic resistance is highest in India. We are blamed all over the world for evolution of one the most dangerous bacteria - the " New Delhi Bug".
- If purchase of antibiotics is allowed on net, the antibiotic resistance will go up further, a time will come when no antibiotic will be effective. PEOPLE WILL DIE OF MINOR INFECTIONS AS NO ANTIBIOTIC WILL WORK FOR THEM.
- Please do not buy medicines online till a proper mechanism for the safety of patients and authentication of prescription is made.
- Please remember if you are buying medicines online, you are encouraging an illegal activity, you are creating another Ravana.
- Let's use medicine wisely and safely and enjoy a long and healthy life. Kill the new Ravana before it strikes you.
- Happy Dussera and prayers for all for a blessed life.
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