Jaipur: Firm under scanner for supplying fake drugs

JAIPUR: A drug distribution firm, which has supplied medicines worth more than Rs 3.7 crores to cooperative drug stores run by the cooperative department, is under the health department’s scanner. On a complaint by the drug controller, recently a sample of the medicine was drawn which failed the quality test.
After the sample failed the quality test, the health department launched an investigation into the quality of drugs being supplied to the cooperative drug stores.
“The medicine was Gaballa-M, having contents methylcobatamin (750mg) and Gabapentin (300mg). But in the laboratory report, it was found that the tablet contained nil methylcobatamin and Gabapentin,” said Ajay Phatak, drug controller, health department.
Following this, the drug controller conducted inspections at 15 cooperative drug stores in different government hospitals of the city and took samples of Gaballa-M and other such tablets. They collected 31 samples.
Phatak said these drugs are used for neurological pain in the elderly people. “The drugs are provided to the pensioners by the cooperative drug stores,” he said.