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You can file a complaint against a pharmacist for denying required number of medicines: FDA

FDA officials will send a show cause notice to pharmacist if found guilty

You can file a complaint against a pharmacist for denying required number of medicines: FDA
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Usually, after visiting a doctor, we go to a pharmacist with a prescription and ask for the required medication. But at times, if we need five tablets, the pharmacist hand us the entire pack of tablets. 
 
Now, many people do not know that the pharmacist has to adhere to our requirements and if he denies giving 5 tablets, then consumers can file a complaint with Food and Drugs Administration (FDA).

After complaining, the FDA officials will send the show cause notice to the pharmacist and will ask for a clarification.


If we are not satisfied with the reasoning, then we will either suspend the license or will cancel the permit permanently of the pharmacist,” Arjun Khadtare, FDA joint commissioner (Drugs).

However, pharmacists have a different say on this matter.

When drug companies prepare strips, it usually has 14,28 and 30 tablets. And when patient come to us asking for 5-10 tablets, we have to cut it in to two. The problem is, drug companies publish the medicine name and expiry date on one corner of the strip and when we cut it in two, the other half does not have the name nor the expiry date. And a lot of patients do not take such strips. When we return the same to the durg companies, they don't accept it. So, if we cut the strip in two, we suffer a loss. Also, drug companies know the number of medicines needed for a particular disease, still they manufacture a strip with 25-30 tablets in it," Shashank Mhatre, Pharmacist.


Mhatre and other pharmacists are demanding to drug companies that they should produce strip which will have 5-10 tablets along with the expiry date and medicine name all over the strip. He further said that he is planning to write to FDA about the same.

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