AGARTALA, April 13 (TIWN): Health Minister Sudip Barman's frequent surprise GO hospital visits are haunting the careless health dept staffs and now the condition of GB hospital is in progress. But another neglected area which TIWN have found out, is the "Medicine Scams" and recommendation of medicines by high-profiled doctors in their private chambers. Tripura's many high profiled doctors who are openly in private business of 'treatment' are forcing a single patient to take even above 15 medicines in a day. Even though the patient parties feel it abnormal or sometimes the patient become physically and mentally ill due to the too much of medicine, but nobody is above than Doctors to suggest. Hardly patient parties can go from one doctor to another but beyond doctor's prescriptions the common men have no words.

Those medicines are often available in medical shops set in front of the chambers of the Doctors. 

Apart from the middle class and rich patients, another one of the most crucial part of Tripura Health Service is that the poor people whose income are not more than Rs.3000 per months, are deprived of free medicines, which compels the poor men to die without medicines and it's happening everyday in Tripura. In Generic medicine centre years after years medical scams have been alleged, with excuse of 'unavailability of medicines'. 

Unavailability of medicines push everyone to buy medicines from the shops in business in front of the District or sub-divisional hospitals. Now, question raises, how many poor people will die in this way ? Who will arrange free medicines for them ? Who will spread awareness among public, how to collect free medicines and if they don't get those free medicines to whom, they will complain ? 

From the Doctors' side also there are lack of interest to spread such awareness or to push the govt for arranging free medicine for them.

The highest sufferers due to  the gap are those patients who need multiple medicines per day, whereas via Generic Medicine Centre such patients can buy medicines at very cheap price.

Not only this, private business bound many Doctors have spread rumours that Generic Medicines are not of good quality, but on Saturday.

It was on July 23, 2017 that Union Minister of Chemical & Fertilizers for State Mansukh Mandaviya confirmed that “not once but the Generic Medicines are tested twice and the price can not justify the quality of those drugs as the medicines service was launched to diminish the burden of the patient-party in the country”.

But hardly any doctor even in the govt hospital prescribes generic medicine for the patients, rather they send the patients to some particular shops to buy medicine, in exchange of commissions received from those shops, just as the doctors do with blood test, sugar test etc.

Addressing the media Mansukh Mandaviya  on that day said, “Medical Council of India is suggesting the doctors to recommend the Generic Medicines for the patients uses. However, no such rule has been brought in this regard but after the generic medicine centre spread its network, rules will also come; it’s just a matter of time”.

From Tripura 75 people have appealed to open Generic Medicine Centre to open here. The central govt has asked people to apply for opening generic medicine stores, but with one condition that the shop will have atleast one pharmacist.

Now, it's to be seen what action the Health Dept takes to arrange free medicine for the poor people.