Bhopal, Jan 31 (Inditop.com) Medical representatives (MRs) of drug manufacturing companies in Madhya Pradesh are up in arms against an order of state Health Minister Anoop Mishra not allowing them on government hospital premises and have threatened to move court against the order.
Mishra recently issued orders restricting the entry of medical representatives to the hospitals, particularly during day timings when the patients visit doctors. Mishra also advised the doctors to prescribe medicines supplied in the hospital and said the patients, whether below or above poverty line, should get the medicines from the hospitals only.
Describing the directives of the minister as “dictatorial”, vice president of Madhya Pradesh-Chhattisgarh medical and representatives’ union Shailendra Sharma said banning entry of MRs on the hospital premises was unfair. “We had been visiting doctors after OPD (Out Patient Department) hours, and following the rules and regulations of the hospital. But ban on our entry in the hospitals is not justified,” he added.
Sharma said: “We would first meet the Chief Minister and later approach court, if he fails to solve our problem.”
He also alleged that the medicines supplied by the government were sub-standard and medical practitioners cannot be directed as to which medicines are to be prescribed.
