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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Fake pill-makers near home by Joy Sengupta

Fake pill-makers near home by Joy Sengupta

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published Published on Nov 22, 2011   modified Modified on Nov 22, 2011

The pill that you pop when down with fever or the syrup you gulp for relief from cough are not cure for sure. They can be counterfeit drugs made in some substandard medicine-manufacturing centres as the one sealed in the city today.

Operating from a two-storeyed building in the Rajiv Nagar area, the sealed unit was allegedly involved in making counterfeit drugs. The batch numbers of several medicines seized from the unit were the same.

In his last raid as the city superintendent of police (central), Shivdeep Lande (transferred to Araria as superintendent of police later in the day) led a team of cops to the medicine-manufacturing unit on the road number-21 in the Rajiv Nagar area. Police were shocked to see around 40 women from rural areas making different kinds of drugs and injections in the presence of one of the managers of the unit.

Lande told The Telegraph: “Several syrups and injections had the same batch number. We recovered several bottles of a syrup named Amogadine. The batch number of all its bottles was 14/72. Similarly, we recovered many injection vials labelled as H-E-T (Mphylline). Their batch number was 149.”

The officer said: “The building from which the medicine-manufacturing unit was operating was locked. There were no boards through which people could identify it as a drug-manufacturing unit. We received several complaints from the residents of the area about nauseating stench emanating from the building.”

The manager present at the unit claimed that it was a branch of a drug-manufacturing company based at Thane in Mumbai. But he could not produce any document to prove his claim.

“The manager gave us an address of the Mumbai unit. It has to be verified. Apart from that, the police did not get any legal documents, including drugs manufacturing licence,” Lande said.

“The owner of the sealed unit in the city claimed that he had certain documents. He has been asked to get in touch with us immediately with the papers,” the officer said.

“A godown adjacent to the building was full with empty and dirty syrup bottles. They were being washed in some detergent. Thereafter, the syrup was being poured into them. This cannot be the right way of manufacturing medicines. The police have contacted the drug inspector. A team will conduct stringent checks on the samples recovered from the unit,” the officer said, adding that he came across a laboratory having some scientific equipment.

Lande said: “After quizzing the women carrying out experiments, we found they had no proper education about the same.”

Doctors said the shady business was a matter of concern.

Rajiv Ranjan Prasad, a physician at Patna Medical College and Hospital and a member of the National Drug Advisory Committee, told The Telegraph that consumption of fake drugs could have serious implications.

“The Amogadine syrup recovered from the unit sounds to be an Amoxicillin dry syrup prescribed for cough and cold. Its fake version can be toxic. It is difficult to comment on the exact side effects of the fake syrup unless one is aware of the compound of the drug,” Prasad said.

Ravi Kumar Gupta, a city-based general physician, said fake medicines could be disastrous for people.

“One can suffer from serious allergic reactions after consuming substandard medicines. The counterfeit drugs can contain wrong active ingredients. Their overdose can prove very dangerous with serious side effects, including sudden stroke or cardiac arrest,” Gupta told The Telegraph.


The Telegraph, 23 November, 2011, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1111123/jsp/bihar/story_14787431.jsp


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