Drug dealers continue to sell unregistered and unwarranted drugs in twin cities

Drug dealers continue to sell unregistered and unwarranted drugs in twin cities

Rawalpindi: (Wednesday, December 28, 2011) majority of the drug dealers here in Rawalpindi and in Islamabad has been found to indulge into illegal activities of selling unregistered and unwarranted drugs, while the drug inspectors have remained miserably
failed to stop them from doing so.

The drug inspectors here in Rawal and Potohar towns have not come up with success in clearing markets from spurious, unregistered and unwarranted drugs from retail and wholesale markets. Also their action against drug act violators proved to be just eyewash
in the recent past.

The tall claims made repeatedly by the district health department regarding action against drug act violators has proved to be a rhetoric particularly when the wrong doers have not been paying any heed to the drug inspectors’ so-called campaigns while continuing
their businesses despite action against them.

Drug inspector at Rawal Town who has been transferred to Potohar Town Naveed Anwar recently sealed a private clinic in Iqbal Town for keeping banned drugs, but the clinic owner, a doctor serving at a Basic Health Unit in Murree area, de-sealed his business
on his own last week without waiting for the decision by the District Quality Control Board.

Naveed, however, did not take any action against the said doctor saying that he has been transferred to Potohar Town though he left charge of his seat on December 26. Talking to the reporters, Naveed said that if the clinic owner has de-sealed his clinic without
decision by a competent authority, an FIR can be lodged against the owner.

Naveed did not take any action against the clinic owner and left charge on Sunday. He has been given charge of the seat of drug inspector at Potohar Town.

Shafiq Khan, who took charge of the seat of Drug Inspector at Rawal Town on Sunday, when contacted by the reporters on Monday, said that District Health Officer Dr. Khalid Randhawa informed him of the drug act violation by the clinic owner Saturday evening,
“However, I had not taken charge as Drug Inspector Rawal Town at that time,” he said.

To a query, he said that an FIR should have been lodged against the clinic owner for violating the drug act by de-sealing clinic himself and for challenging the government writ. Dr. Randhawa who was officiating Executive District Officer (Health) two days back,
when contacted by the reporters on Saturday said that he was unaware of the de-sealing. “I have asked the drug inspector to look into the matter,” he said.

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