Is  ESMA  only  for  Doctors

 

Chemists  all  over  the  country  are  on  strike  today. Since  morning  my  usual  reasonably  heavy  OPD  is  empty. I  wondered  whether  it  was  due  to  the  new  floral  shirt  I  had  worn  till  it  dawned  on  me  that  the  chemists  are  on  strike  across  the  country  today  to  protect  their  profits  which  are  under  threat  due  to  internet  availability  of  medicine. It  is  a  revelation  to  me  how  even the  uneducated  and  seemingly  unaware  public  realizes  that  if  chemists  are  on  strike  it  is  a  waste  of  time  going  to  visit  doctors. There  is  no  talk  of  ESMA  and  other  usually  brutal  measures  being  brought  by  the  Government  to  break  the  strike  despite  the  fact  that  public  will  suffer  for  non  availability  of  essential  medicines. 

 

The  hospitals  and  small  nursing  homes  are  not  permitted  to  stock  and  dispense  medicines  even  to their  own  patients as  per  interpretation  of  Drugs  and  Cosmetic  Act  as  done  by  some  authorities  and some  High  Courts. It  is  only  due  to  the  benevolence  of  our  authorities  that  the  9 lac plus MBBS doctors  who  do  stock  some  medicines  in  India  are  not  behind  bars. But  God  help  them  if  they  organize  a  mass  strike  across  the  country  to  ask  for  something  which  is a basic  professional   necessity  for  them.

 

The  usually  strident  press  will  no  doubt  be  muted  spectator  to  this  Pan  India  non  availability  of  essential  services  today. I  would  like  medical associations  to  preserve  the  press  coverage  tomorrow  of  this  major  event  for  future  reference  in  case  doctors  ever  decide  to  "partially" strike  work      

 
 
Dr  Neeraj  Nagpal 
Convenor,Medicos  Legal  Action  Group,   Managing Director MLAG  Indemnity,    
Ex  President  IMA  Chandigarh 
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