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Day: March 17, 2021

  • Medical shops’s touts freely luring patients/attandents to purchase medicines.

    Medical shops’s touts freely luring patients/attandents to purchase medicines.


    Shyam Sood
    Rajouri March 18:    –It has been found that the representatives of private medical shops freely & frequently visiting the government hospitals to lure the patients /attendants to purchase medicines from their shops.


    It has also been found that at some places doctors posted in the health centres running medical shops outside the centres on the names of their family members/relatives and forcing the patients to purchase recommended medicines from these shops.


    Pertinent to mention, that the government of UT of J&K providing free medicines to the patients in the government hospitals.Reportedly in an order issued in the past by the Health Department, the doctor has to recommend medicines available in the hospital store.“But the order is violated with impunity all most in all the government hospitals & doctors recommends medicines available at their preferable medical shops” said a senior health official.


    In order to increase their sales, owners of medical shop have adopted such tactics and they are sending their employees to Out Patient Department (OPD), Emergency and other wards to lure the patients /attendants.


    These touts misguiding the attendants about the quality of the medicines made available by the government free of cost in the hospitals and forcing them to purchase medicines from their shops. Recently matter has been brought by the patients in the notice of Dr Iqbal Malik, BMO, Kandi Health Block.


    BMO in a circular issued today has warned such shop owners for strict action against them.
    “It is warned to all private Medical Shops outside CHC ,Kandi (Kotranka , not to send any person inside the hospital premises in future, failing which the same shall be informed to the district administration & the police for appropriate action” the circular reads.

  • Farooq-Azad talks on cards

    Farooq-Azad talks on cards

    jammu : With Prime Minister, Narendra Modi having spoken high about former Chief Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad, talks between the veteran Congress leader and his counterpart from the National Conference, Dr Farooq Abdullah are on the cards.
    Sources said a lobby in New Delhi close to both the leaders is of the opinion that Dr Abdullah and Azad should hold talks with regard to Jammu and Kashmir.
    Sources said the Bharatiya Janta Party is “comfortable to negotiate” any political demand on Jammu and Kashmir like the restoration of statehood if it comes through leaders like Azad who is “known for his nationalist outlook since day one.”
    Sources said the lobby close to the regional parties based in Kashmir believe that Azad can prove a “game-changer in speedy realization of their demands and thus be helpful even for holding early polls.”
    Sources said the talks between Azad and Abdullah are likely to take place in the summer capital in the coming days.
    Sources said the talks would focus mainly on demand for restoration of the statehood and early Assembly elections.
    It is pertinent to mention that on February 9, Prime Minister, Narendra Modi got emotional in Parliament as he bid farewell to veteran Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad and said that his legacy in national politics will be hard to replace.
    “As a leader of the opposition, it’s easy to engage in party politics, but Ghulam Nabi Azad Ji rose above this and always prioritised the prosperity of the country first,” PM Modi said. “During the pandemic, it was Azad’s proposal to call an all-party meet to fight the crisis as one nation,” the PM added.
    Modi’s appreciation for Azad came despite the fact that the latter had upped his demand for restoration of statehood for Jammu and Kashmir during the same Parliament session.
    Azad had said the BJP should table a bill to go ahead with the restoration of the statehood soon.
    After Modi’s appreciation for him, Azad during his recent visit to Jammu, had reciprocated by showering praises on the PM.
    The development had drawn serious criticism from some of the Congress colleagues in Jammu. But Azad remained defiant.
    “All this suggests that something is cooking up on Kashmir and Azad has a lead role… This is what parties like National Conference want to cash upon,” said a political analyst based in Jammu.