Corrupt Medical Practices in Pakistan and Fake Drugs
Bismillah hir Rahman nir Raheem
Substandard Drugs and our lazy and corrupt policies
Prof. (Dr.) Anwar Ul Haque
Head department of Pathology
Azad Jammu Kashmir Medical College
Muzafffarabad, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan
In Pakistan corruption reigns in every sphere of life! We cry only when some visible catastrophe happens or where political millage are needed. I personally carried out several inquiries related to pharmacy stores, witnessed sub-standard drugs at Pakistan Institute of edical Sciences (PIMS) and wrote editorials and articles but all fell on deaf ears. Our one great honest female pharmacist raised the issue on all levels including Supreme Court of Pakistan and Ministry of Health, however the well connected and influential corrupt mafia managed to include criminals and corrupt elements in the inquiry committees with expected results!
The Government Hospitals are dumping place for grossly sub-standard drugs (Please see my attached article which also contains the pictures of some of these drugs). Not only sub-standard drugs are sold at the Government Hospitals but drugs are stolen on a large scale from Government Hospitals stores and then sold at private Drug stores thus depriving poor people from meager and scarce source of free drugs. The standard of drugs is so poor that many hospital administrators do not use these drugs for themselves and get these from private drug stores! At times "Noora" thefts are created to "justify" the missing drugs which might have not arrived in the first place.
Heavy bribes in drug registration is extremely common. When I raised objection on ultra fast registration of drugs without appropriate procedures and tests at PIMS Clinicopathological Conference (CPC) in the time of Javde Hashmi (Then health minister) and Dr. Ghayyur Ayyub (Then D.G. Health) an inquiry committee was constituted against me by PIMS administration. WHO officials also stole expensive drugs from PIMS at the time of Earthquake in Pakistan.
Governor of Punjab Mr. Altaf Hussain received fake drugs as revealed by tests carried out in USA. He succumbed to these drugs!
Currently we are going through deep moral crisis and evil forces are bent upon to defame and demolish all genuine sources of elimination of corruption at all levels. Pseudo religious elements are also collaborating and dancing on the tunes of corrupt and incompetent mafia. Media is scared that corrupt and incompetent Government Hospital administration may not help them in case of need! it is also influenced by rich and powerful authorities.
We must join hands to strengthen the moral and ethical values at all levels.
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