All on a sudden march 10, 2016 Union ministry of health banned 344 fixed drug combinations, which created a havoc in the medicinal field. Within a short span, pharma companies revoked the ban in certain states like Delhi. What impression NPPA is making with this sort of game. For eg., Pioglitazone was banned earlier with the notion that it can increase cardiovascular risk. Now, it's freely available with new found benefits as cardioprotectant.
In an earlier incident, all on a sudden Clobazam is commonly used to add on for refractory seizures and then disappeared suddenly on not putting Rx symbol on the batches avalilable, so many patients got admitted with status. This sounds horrendous as a practitioner, for me. Who has given them the rights to gamble with the life of human beings on lame excuses? Were you not using fixed drug combinations which are rational and effective? Who should…
