two medicines with the same name – Photo: amar ujala digital Detail Two medicines are being sold with the same name in the drug market of Madhya Pradesh. One is real and one is fake. Even after its complaint, the Drug and Cosmetics Department is not able to stop the sale of spurious drugs. Both the medicine are for liver disease. One is allopathic and the other is Ayurvedic. A pharmaceutical manufacturing company in Rangwasa area of ​​Indore has been manufacturing a medicine named Alkavin since years. Apart from Madhya Pradesh, this medicine also goes to other states. Two years ago, a Gujarat company by this name made medicine and started selling it in the market. The license for its sale has been issued by the Food and Drug Administration in Madhya Pradesh. Because of this the officers are not taking interest in banning this medicine. If another pharmaceutical company makes a medicine in the name of any popular medicine, then confusion arises. Customers sometimes get fake medicine. It doesn’t have that use, which the doctor has written to the patient. This is what is happening in the case of Alkavin. Even after this, the officers are asking the complainant to prove that his product is old. When the matter was discussed with Food Controller of Madhya Pradesh Shobhit, he said that he has not received any complaint about it. The officers of Indore must be looking into the matter. Complaint was made eight months back

making Alkavin medicine in Raganvasa Manufacturer Rajendra Tare says that he has been making medicine using this name since Huh. Two years ago another company started making the drug using the same name. It comes under the category of crime. He told that he had complained about this to the drug department eight months ago, but they did not take any action. We have written the letter

In this case, Drug Inspector Lokesh Gupta says that after the complaint, we have written a letter to the Gujarat company, but the reply has not come yet. The department gives permission on the basis of generic name and formula. ,