India is one country blamed for being responsible the for irrational use of drugs and creation of suprebugs and declared a national antibiotic policy in 2010, which is in middle of nowhere by 2017. Now the thrust is on generic drug promotion as a government policy in place branded drugs. Agreed fully with the policy provided quality assurance is done by a committee before forcing us to write generics. Who will be held responsible if an undesired effect happens? Government agencies will take the responsibility and be held accountable or the doctor who prescribes or the medical shop from where the patient buys the drug?Who will be booked?
No other answer than the Poor doctor. So promoting generics is not the solution straight away, but first, formulate a system for quality assurance which is noncorruptive . Can you do that? Do you think it's possible in a human system?
