New Delhi: Are the medicines you are taking to cure your illness for real? Many people will say – of course, we have bought it from a good and reputed medical store, so there is no question that the medicine is fake. The government also knows that the business of fake medicines is growing rapidly in the country.
Therefore, the government wants a solution to this, although it is difficult to control it completely, but it can definitely be reduced.
There are two leading agencies regulating medicines in the world. India’s DCGI (Drug Controller General of India) and the other FDA (Us Food and Drug Administration), both these agencies take care that companies make the right medicine despite this, more than 25 percent of the medicines sold in India are fake medicines.
What is the solution?
According to the ASSOCHAM report, the business of fake medicines in India is more than $ 10 billion. The government also wants a solution. Therefore, it is being considered to launch an app in which the QR code can be scanned to know about that drug. On scanning the code, you will know which company has made it, what is the salt and how long it will expire. This app has not yet come, but according to a report published in an English newspaper, it can be launched soon.
How will the app work?
The government wants to include those medicines in this list first whose sale are maximum. For example, antibiotics, pain relief, heart diseases and anti-allergic. Fraud occurs in those medicines that sell more and do not even need a doctor’s prescription to buy. In such a situation, when pharmaceutical companies make medicines, they will give a QR code on them. Obviously, this will also increase the expenses of pharmaceutical companies, but it will provide relief to both pharmaceutical companies and people.
Because fake drugs also affect the business of real companies. It will start with select medicines and when the medicines with QR codes come in the market, you will be able to scan the QR code in the app you download in the phone to find out whether the drug is real or fake.