JOHOR BARU: Nearly a quarter of pharmacies in Johor were found to have violated pharmaceutical regulations.
The offences include selling of controlled drugs without doctor’s prescriptions, operating illegally and having unlicensed pharmacists.
Johor Local Government and Health Committee chairman Datuk Halimah Sadique (BN-Pasir Raja) said written warnings had been issued to the respective outlets.
“Action will be taken if they continue to violate the regulations,” she said in reply to a question posed by Dr Abdul Rashid Abd Mokti (BN-Sedili) at the Johor State Assembly here Monday.
In the operations conducted, Halimah said 32 out of the 150 pharmacies checked were found to have violated pharmaceutical regulations.
Dr Abdul Rashid also proposed for the installation of CCTVs at these outlets but Halimah rejected it as it would be difficult to tell the drugs sold.
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Ask the pharmacist!
1)Selling of controlled drugs without doctor’s prescriptions
This is definitely wrong to sell certain controlled drugs under Group B (hypertension, cholesterol, etc) without Dr's prescription.
Am i hearing that Dr will write out prescription for the patient to buy it from a pharmacy instead of them dispensing it in their clinic? Pls take note that a pharmacist can sell Group C without prescription (cough, cold, flu, creams, eye drops, over the counter medicine, allergy, pain medicine, etc)
2)Operating illegally and having unlicensed pharmacist
What does that means? The laws already specify that Only a pharmacist can open a pharmacy and how does the pharmacy open and continue operation if they don't have a licensed pharmacist at the first place?
Do u think a written warning is enough? Don't u think that having an unlicensed pharmacist to operate that outlet is serious enough to close down the pharmacy? It just like a clinic operated by a bogus Dr.
What do they do? Issue a letter of warning? Want to wait for bad things before taking action?
Maybe they should publish the pharmacies name to the public so that the public can identify them. Lets see.
3) Dont worry as 25% is not majority (according to our minister). Majority of us are still good. Most of my friends work up to 12 hours a day 7 days a week to serve the people. I work 12 hours 6 days a week but closed for rest on Sunday. I am no robot lar.... and with this kind of working hours i can only drive proton iswara with a hard backside. Haha..
3 comments:
Yea, according to Nazri el Balachi...that is not majority.
As usual.... BODOHLAND GOV dunno how to do things.
why don't they publish a news that near to 50% of WHOLE Country DR giving un-registered medication to their patients?
wht to do? patients still think their BOGUS DR is good good good. HEHE
Why johor ? Because of Singaporeans lorh.
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