PEW demands immediate patients awareness programmes
Islamabad: [March 13]
The Pakistan Economy Watch (PEW) on Sunday called upon government and civil society to launch awareness programmes for patients.
A good number of doctors are losing professionalism to other priorities which is jeopardising health of unsuspecting patients who needs to be educated, it said.
Increasing financial ties between doctors and pharmaceutical companies means those require medical care are paying for the commercial bribes without knowing it, said Dr. Murtaza Mughal, President PEW.
A PEW survey revealed that many doctors are overmedicating patients for profits that has become important, safety is not. Living longer and healthier lives with help of proper medicine has become difficult.
Doctors interviewed during the survey accepted that preventing abuse and educating patients is their responsibility. However, they were found reluctant to disclose their monetary arrangements with the pharmaceuticals, he said.
It is an open secret that doctors prescribe costly and substandard medicines to get commission. However, not a single healthcare official or pharmacist was found willing to report those engaged in violations, said Dr. Murtaza Mughal.
The survey found that hundreds of sub standard companies are pumping their medicines into market. Even owners of medical storeowners have established companies producing drugs with possible fatal consequences.
They offer huge margins for the distributors and sale through medical practitioners which amounts to prescribing poison in the name of life saving drugs, he said.
WHO says that no pharmaceutical can function without a separate research and analysis wing but in Pakistan unskilled workers are producing medicines with the blessing of those who are entrusted to stop it, it was observed.
Some businesspersons are importing medicines labelled as food items and selling them through doctors with the connivance of regulators.
Organised crime against humanity should be stopped in medical profession, healthcare institutions, private clinics, and pharma companies, PEW demanded.
Some greedy doctors may be causing serious health problems, unintentional disabilities and deaths that merits probe.
The government, concerned ministry, administration of hospitals, NGOs and patients must share the responsibility, said Dr. Mughal.
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Dr. Murtaza Mughal
Cell: 0321-5157671
President Pakistan Economy Watch
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