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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Jan Aushadhi shops can replace branded drugs with generics -Sushmi Dey

Jan Aushadhi shops can replace branded drugs with generics -Sushmi Dey

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published Published on Nov 30, 2018   modified Modified on Nov 30, 2018
-The Times of India

NEW DELHI: To promote low-cost generic medicines, the government’s top drug regulatory board has allowed Jan Aushadhi Kendras — which are like fair price shops for medicines under the Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana — to substitute doctor’s prescription with a generic brand.

On Thursday, the Drugs Technical Advisory Board cleared a proposal to amend a rule under the drugs law. “This proposal asking permission for chemists to substitute brands prescribed by doctors with other brands was pending for a very long time. For the time being, we have allowed only Jan Aushadhi stores to do so because we want to watch it on a trial basis,” an official said. So far, chemists were legally not allowed to replace the brand or the medicine prescribed by a doctor.

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The Times of India, 30 November, 2018, https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/jan-aushadhi-shops-can-replace-branded-drugs-with-generics/articleshow/66873581.cms


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