Drug Controller reviews stock position of medicines in JK

5 Dariya News

Jammu 01-Apr-2020

Drug Controller J&K, Lotika Khajuria today convened a meeting of all Depot holders / C&F agents / Super stockists of leading multinational / micro pharma houses based at  Jammu to facilitate and ensure the uninterrupted and hassle free supply of life saving / essential medicines in the whole distribution chain to the end users across the UT of  J&K.The meeting was attended by Assistant Drug Controller Jammu, Drug Control Officers, President JPDA and other representatives of Pharma trade.The meeting was  conducted post the outbreak of COVID 19 and subsequent implementation of Pan India lockdown to ensure that there is no shortage of essential lifesaving medicines to the  patients / end users across J&K.It was informed that there are sufficient stocks of all kinds of essential medicines at the depot level and in the supply chain as of now, however  the pharma dealers raised the concerns that they are facing certain difficulties under the present restrictions / lockdown w.r.t the transportation of medicines both at the inter and  intra state levels.Taking immediate cognizance of the difficulties, certain steps were initiated for removal of such difficulties by taking up the matter with the administration for their  immediate removal to ensure smooth movement of consignments of life saving essential medicines.In this context, a whatsapp group was constituted comprising officers of the  Drug Control Department and the depot holders of all the major MNC’S to maintain a coherent coordination to ensure that there is no shortage of any lifesaving medicines which  has been shared with the stake holders.All the Assistant Drug Controllers at the district level have been instructed to ensure the availability of all lifesaving medicines and report  shortage of any kind of medicines on the whatsapp group No  9797134137 on the designed format so that prompt action will initiated to ensure the availability of particular class  of medicines.Further the Enforcement / Empowered authorities across the UT have been instructed to ensure that social distancing is strictly maintained at the retail medical  outlets as responsible citizens to contain the spread of novel Coronavirus (COVID 19).