Saturday, April 2, 2016

Rs. 1b worth substandard medications imported

Sri Lanka has imported substandard medications worth Rs. 1 billion in the most recent five years, examinations by the Committee on Public Enterprise (COPE) uncovered.

The State Pharmaceutical Corporation (SPC) which was under survey by COPE has no component to lead quality checks and expiry dates on therapeutic medications that touch base at traditions, raising genuine worries about the quality confirmation part of medications brought into the nation, COPE Chairman Sunil Hadunnetti told the Daily News.
"This is a genuine matter. The SPC becomes more acquainted with about the absence of value just later. They direct quality checks just when dissensions are gotten from the general population with respect to the nature of items.



By then the things concerned have been disseminated and utilized," Handunnetti said expounding on the issue. He asserted that the SPC and the State Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Corporation don't have legitimate coordination which has prompted genuine acquirement issues.

Handunnetti said the absence of appropriate correspondence and coordination between the Medical Supplies Division (MSD) and the SPC has additionally prompted various issues with respect to buying and supplying prescription to the state human services framework.

Adapt called authorities of the three organizations in charge of supply and circulation of medications to the state human services framework to examine into the consistent medication deficiencies reported.

State healing facilities have been confronting a ceaseless therapeutic medication deficiencies throughout the years. A month ago, the administration needed to airdrop various basic restorative medications which had been hard to come by in state healing facilities.

Adapt has prescribed to the foundations to devise systems to lead quality checks at the port of sections and appropriate coordination among SPC, SPMC and MSD.