T HE circulation of spurious medicines in the market is a serious problem. This includes fake birth-control pills, antimalaria pills, made of potato and starch and cough syrups.
A World Health Organisation report says that one in 10 medical products circulating in low and middle-income countries are either substandard or fake. As a concerned parent, it scares me every time I have to get medicines for my children.
A pharmaceutical company has planned to roll out a programme for increasing availability and affordability of 15 medicines for some key non-communicable diseases in 30 countries. It seems like the beacon of light at the end of the tunnel.
I strongly believe that we need to get rid of the menace of f ake medicines because these are playing havoc with the lives and health of our people.
