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All irrational FDC drugs have been weeded out from medicine market in Tamil Nadu: TNCDA president
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Peethaambaran Kunnathoor, Chennai
May 31 , 2016
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Within two months of the ban of 344 fixed dose combination (FDC) drugs
by the national drug regulator, all the irrational combinations have
been weeded out from the medicine market in Tamil Nadu as desired by the
Drugs Controller General (India), according to the president of the
Tamil Nadu Chemists and Druggists Association (TNCDA).
“We are
not against the ban order, we give full support to the DCGI for his
initiatives to weed out the irrational drugs from Indian market.
However, given that the Delhi High Court has stayed the government
order, our members have sold out all the stocks they had within one
month’s time. Now we do not receive any prescription for the banned
products from doctors who are being informed of the matter every time”,
said Mannargudi Ramachandran, president of TNCDA.
While
responding to queries from Pharmabiz, he said no manufacturer has tried
to take back the products immediately after the prohibition order. Since
the Delhi High Court has stayed the order, and the Madras High Court,
though not stayed, directed the authorities not to take any coercive
action against the traders, the chemists’ community was free to sell out
the stocks within a few days of the ban.
However, the
wholesalers’ wing of TNCDA is meeting on the 5th of next month in
Chennai to discuss the post-FDC ban scenario. According to sources from
the organisation, bundles of the combination drugs are lying with the
wholesalers’ depots all over the state, and due to the ban order, they
are unable to distribute/sell them out. The June 5 meeting will decide
the fate of such products, sources informed. More than one thousand
wholesalers have membership with the Tamil Nadu chemists association.
A
leading pharma marketer in Chennai said on the same day of the meeting
of TNCDA, the marketers association has also called for a special
meeting to discuss the same issue. “The marketers’ godowns are filled
with several kinds of combination drugs. The manufacturers cannot take
them back. All these drugs have been there in the market for several
years. Because of the ban, we stopped distribution, but a decision for
not making any loss either to the manufacturer or to the marketer, has
to be emerged in the meeting”, said a Madurai based dealer.
Meanwhile,
it is learnt that, discussions are going on among various medicine
wholesalers and distributors’ groups to stand united under the
leadership of TNCDA, the largest traders body in the state. Information
received from various sources reveal that Mannargudi Ramachandran is
likely to hold discussion with the office-bearers of Tamil Nadu
Pharmaceutical Distributors’ Association, Consortium of Indian
Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Marketers Associations, Tamil Nadu
Pharmaceutical Wholesalers Association and a few other organisations
concentrating their operations in the southern and western parts of the
state.
The office-bearers of TNCDA have called on the new health minister soon after the swearing in ceremony of the state government.
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