Whilst I agree about our FDA, I would not be too sure about the stuff available in our Pharmacies! You all may have heard about the Ranbaxy case in USA and even a sincere and experienced Raj Vaidya of Hindu Pharmacy says these days he frankly couldn't vouch for most of the stuff available or he is selling. Cautious optimism these days is prudent, where we are cautioned not to eat even eggs because hens are injected and the eggs/ stuff we eat render our immune systems prone to anti biotic medicines rendered ineffective. And Yes, I am no Pharmacist!.....................JEG
On Friday, 5 September 2014 2:12 PM, Cecil Pinto <cecilpi...@gmail.com> wrote: A response from my friend Savio Figueiredo who can be contacted on rendeep1 at yahoo dot com --------- I do not wish to get personal. I googled Mr Roland Francis and have noted that he is based in Toronto Canada.I dont know whether he is from the Pharma field . On the other hand I am a Pharmacy Graduate and have worked in Pharma industry in Goa in the manufacturing , Materials- Purchase, Logistics and now Retail Pharmacy for more than 29 years. I have worked in Managerial positions in the CMM Group of Companies & German Remedies Ltd.and have been associated with M/s Unichem Laboratories Ltd. Just because we are employees of the company does not mean that they have purchased our souls.Please note that we are possibly talking about life saving medicines and it would be a criminal act to play with the lives of patients. During my time I have been witness to batches worth lacs of rupees being trashed as they did not meet standards. I have known the QC Pharmacists stand their ground about the quality of the raw materials & final products. India produces the best & cheapest medicines in the whole world. Why on earth would someone wish to bring in medicines in container loads and sell them cheap in Goa ? This may have been happening 40 years back when there was no manufacturing base in Goa & India Today I can proudly state that the availability of spurious, duplicate or mis-branded products at the pharmacy level in Goa is almost zero and the FDA in Goa is one of the most honest Departments in Goa as well as India and this has been so over the last 25 years & more due to honest leadership of the Directors. To say that everything is hunky dory ofcourse would mean that either I am naive or a fool with no idea about what goes in the Pharma Industry. I cannot speak for Government tendered medicines or vouch for their quality. There are many issues such as homeopaths & ayurveds quacks prescribing allopathic medicines left right & centre under the nose of the MCI , " setting" between physicians & pharmaceutical companies which results in unnecessary medicines being prescribed to the patients in private & public domains, over-presription of antibiotics by GP's who do not have the right & the knowledge to prescribe them, prescription of new molecules without follow up etc which needs to be exposed and will be. Savio Figueiredo B. Pharm Community Pharmacist Dr Carlos Medical Stores Aldona, Bardez, Goa 403508 Tel : 00918322293307 (M) 9822142037 "The hands that serve are holier than the lips that pray " ( copied from a T-shirt slogan at Mapusa Market) =========