The government of India has proposed to deem many drugs to OTC category to enable pharmacists to prescribe these drugs to patients without the intervention of doctor is quite shocking. The public health care delivery system in India is quite bad starting from fund allocation to infrastructure to people’s preference. India has created the large number of ‘doctors’ from several streams of faith and tradition based healing practices besides MBBS doctors from a scientific stream of medicine.
Many of the preparations of the traditional healing practices are mentioned in the Drugs and Cosmetic Act as traditional preparations/medicines. Sale license is not required for such preparations so the traditional healers can prepare own concoctions and can be given the patient. The treatment response is largely shared between the vaidya and the patient and that is how the practice is been…
