Raja Syed Rather
Srinagar, Feb 19: Drug Control Authorities have closed down 13 medical shops in Ganderbal and Bandipora district in the last three days for violating the conditions of licenses besides other mandatory directives including CCTV, Computerized Billing System and issuance of cash memos/invoices.
According to officials, 60 shops were inspected in Ganderbal district and of them licenses of 10 medical shops were suspended for non-maintenance of records of habit forming drugs and violation of different provisions of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act 1940 and Operations of one medical shop were disallowed for two days.
In Bandipora, 20 shops were inspected out of which licenses of three medical shops were suspended for violation of different provisions of the Act.
Moreover, many other pharmacies were also inspected and statutory drug samples were lifted for analysis purposes to ascertain their quality parameters.
The team of officers headed by Assistant Drug Controller informed that such inspections are routinely carried out as mandated under law.
He added that their organisation has already sensitised chemists to adopt a robust system for maintenance of records and CCTV Surveillance to plug in gaps to avoid misuse of essential life saving scheduled formulations along with observing conditions of licenses.
