Lawmakers advocates setting up of drug testing lab

BJP MLA Tage Taki has advocated immediate setting up of drug testing laboratory (DTL) and drug warehouse to improve the health care delivery system and safety of patients in Arunachal Pradesh.
Addressing the Arunachal Pharmacists Convention here The BJP MLA from Ziro supported both the demands of India Pharmacist Revolution convener Amitav Joyprakash Choudhury and asked the Health and Family Welfare (H&FW) department to prepare proposals for him to move the Central ministry as the people's agent.
Such facilities would help control 900 pharmaceutical shops to provide safe medicines to the patients, he said.
Confederation of Services Association of Arunachal Pradesh secretary general Pate Marik rued that pharmacists are given least importance in the state though they mitigate human sufferings. He exhorted the pharmacists to discharge their duties sincerely as 'Rights and duties go hand in hand'.

"We want all health facilities to overcome the shortcomings but unable to influence Delhi. Help in availing all facilities as an activist in the interest of state, inhabited by Hindustanis, said H&FW director Dr Kartik Nishing told Choudhury and lauded him for his effort to set up first pharmaco vigilance centre in Arunachal State Hospital.
India represents the third largest pharmaceutical industry in the world, said H&FW (Medical research & training) director Dr Moji Jini and wondered if the medicines are affordable and their quality reliable?
Hinting at dismal state of affairs, Arunachal Registered Pharmacists' Association (ARPA) general secretary Tade Dui said that there are only 197 pharmacists against 825 health centres including 566 sub-centers (which are manned by the pharmacists in the absence of doctors) through there are 206 unemployed pharmacists in the state.

The convention was organised by the Indian Pharmacist Revolution in collaboration with the ARPA.