Govt’s quest for ethics in drug prescription
Posted in Uncategorized on 12/19/2007 04:58 am by CarethicsKerela Govt has found a new way to control medication costs….They are going to restrict number of medicines that doctors can prescribe, that too in compliance with WHO protocol. And one more thing, govt is going to make it mandatory for the Doctors to prescribe medicines by their generic name, not the brand name. IMA has not come out to support the move, as they say it curtails Doctor's freedom to prescribe the necessary medicines. Rajasthan govt has also tried for such a measure in the past, but could not implement it due to opposition from Doctors.
Well at the end of it: there is no reason why generic name prescription is not made mandatory in at least the government hospitals, as government unabashedly and grossly under funds its healthcare machinery…