Many hospitals in Kakinada and surrounding having attached pharmacies, these pharmacy are run by the doctor or by the kin of the doctors , mostly who are unqualified attendants, these pharmacy are run to server the scrawls written by the doctors,
As per the mandatory norms scheduled H drugs are to be sold with care and by qualified persons,
But these pharmacy of doctors serve only costly drugs of certain companies, what ever the aliment may be the doctor prescribes the drugs available at his pharmacy, patients will also have a bonding of buying the medicines at the doctors own pharmacy for two reasons
One for pleasing the doctor, other the fear of change of medicines at the outer pharmacy, actually the same drug will be available for a low price which are manufactures by other company
Many times we have cross checked it, but, still we buy at the doctors pharmacy.
We citizens of Kakinada should come out of this myth and we should find the drug name and chemical formula and we can use the medicines available at other medical stores, we can also support the government oushadi stores in the GGH compound, where medicines are much cheaper.
Medicines are prescribed by doctors by their band name but, not by their Generic name, and what we actually pay for the medicines are al ot more, so, better visit sites like these
www.medguideindia.com
click on the drugs
click on the bran
then the name of your drug
click on the Generics , it will display the ingredients of your medicine,
click on the matched brands with above Constituents
for example
Metocard XL 50 is Rs 62.00 by some xyz companies, but the same drug is available for only Rs 7.00 by another branded drug manufacture.
see the difference, in this was we are being cheated.
Better Kakinada urges doctors to be more responsible and you should remember the Hippocratic oat when you prescribe medicines.
