Hyderabad: The EAGLE Force, Telangana, along with officials from the Telangana Standards Authority for Food and Essential Drugs (TG SAFE), conducted inspections at four medical establishments in Hyderabad and found alleged regulatory violations.
Officials inspected the establishments as part of checks on compliance with requirements governing the storage, sale and documentation of medicines, including Schedule H, H1 and habit-forming drugs.
At Al-Hamra Medical & General Store in Masab Tank, officials found that prescribed registers had not been maintained and sale bills for certain medicines were not produced for verification.
Similar deficiencies were reported at MM Medical and General Store (MED24 Pharmacy) in Mallepally, where officials found issues relating to the maintenance and production of prescribed records and sale bills.
At First Step Drug Mart in Tolichowki, the pharmacist was reportedly absent during the inspection. Officials said the Schedule H1 Drugs Register was not produced and discrepancies were noticed in the purchase and sale records of certain habit-forming medicines.
At Hayat Pharmacy in Tolichowki, officials said the prescribed Schedule H1 and prescription registers, along with certain sale bills, were not produced for verification.
Following the inspections, show-cause notices were issued to all four establishments over the alleged regulatory violations.
Officials said further action will be taken against the establishments under the applicable provisions of the Drugs Control Administration after examination of the records and responses to the notices.
