Even as the Health Department has asked drugs inspectors many times to conduct probe into the allegations of medicine stores running illegally on false experience affidavits in all districts, including Ganjam, yet no action has been taken in this regard, lamented unemployed pharmacists here.
The Unemployed Pharmacists’ Association has already written to the Chief Minister, Health Minister and Health Secretary urging them to conduct a probe and take stringent action against all pharmacists grabbing liences on false affidavits and operating medicine stores illegally.
Acting on the complaints, the Drugs Controller had on Augur 4 asked all Drugs Inspector to upload information regarding medicine stores in the websites soon.
According to unemployed pharmacists, many medicines are running on false affidavits in which owners claimed to have experience in working as pharmacists in Government hospitals, 108 Ambulance services, private nursing homes, private hospital and as Government pharmacist teachers.
They have all garnered licences in the knowledge of Drugs Controller. For this, they have lost employment opportunities, alleged the association.
Association convenor S Nageswar Prusty, lalita Mohan Gantayat, Padma Charan Panda, Bishnu Prasad Panda, Shyam Shankar Mishra, Rashmi Ranjan Das, Akshay Kumar Rana, Rajiv lochan Choudhury, Aravind Pal, Manas Ranjan Padhy and Prabir Choudhury have demanded immediate action against illegal medicince stores.