In our country still, customers do not get benefit from low priced generic medicines as their MRP price is too high. More than branded medicines their generic name is printed in small letters and covered by a new brand name prominently so pharmacist sells these in lieu of branded one and earn huge margin, even Government Janashudhi programme was unable to bring any relief to poor patients .
In order to check it, Government will compel Doctors to write generic name only not branded name, all generic names will be in bold letters and above the branded name written in small letters.To push the use of low-cost generic medicines, even the draft pharmaceutical policy last year had proposed that public procurement and dispensing of medicines should be of generic drugs bearing the names of salts. The draft suggested a major shift where only the name of salts (active ingredients) would be…
