Hyderabad: In view of the deficiency of liposomal amphotericin B used in the treatment of Mucormycosis, drug control authorities in Telangana have made government approval mandatory for the sale of the injection.
Director of the Medicines Control Administration informed all manufacturers, retailers and distributors of Liposomal Amphotericin B injection IP 50 mg that the medicines can only be sold on the recommendation of the government panel to hospitals where patients are being treated.
They were instructed to give the available medicine to the hospital only on the recommendation of the government committee.
The government of Telangana has set up a committee headed by medical education director to ensure that the patient with his post Covid complication of Mucormycosis is immediately available for the Liposomal Amphotericin B injection.
Manufacturing companies of the vaccine were ordered to supply the drug directly to their seller and immediately inform the drug control department of the quantity, name and address of the seller where the drug is supplied.
Drugs delivered to the retailer by manufacturing companies will in turn issue bottles of the injection on the recommendation of the government committee to the hospitals where patients are admitted.
Stock cannot dispense single vials directly to the hospitals and patients without the recommendation of the committee. Any deviation in this regard will be considered serious, reads a letter from the Drug Control Administration.
The orders were issued due to the shortage of the drug over the past few days following the number of Mucormycosis cases detected in the state.
The step was taken to prevent black marketing of the drug and to ensure that patients treated in hospitals get the same immediately.
Earlier, the shortage of the Remdesivir injection led to black marketing of the drug. People paid big money in the black market to get the drug.
Prime Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday ordered officials to strike the equipment and necessary medicines at ENT Hospital in Koti, Gandhi Hospital in Secunderabad, medical college hospitals in the districts to treat Mucormycosis that is spreading among Corona-treated patients.
He said that, if necessary, 25 Microdebrider machines, HD Endoscopic cameras would be purchased immediately.
Source: The Siasat Daily