Action Can Be Taken Against The Government Docs Prescribed Medicine From Trade Names If Complained-DGHS

Action Can Taken against the Government Hospital Doctors who are Prescribing Drugs In Trade Name Instead of the Generic Name if the Patients are Complained On it Director General Of Health Services(DGHS)Dr.Ajith Mendis Said Today(26).Due to the Silence of the Patients Regarding this Issue Hospital Doctors are Continuously Prescribing Drugs by Trade Name He Stressed.Health Ministry Announced Last year that all the Government Hospital Doctors Should Prescribed Drugs from the Generic Name Effect from 01St Of January this year.
Meanwhile Health Minister Nimal Siripala De Silva too Appealed from All the Sri Lankan Doctors to Prescribe Medicine From the Generic Name Instead of Brand Name."I have no other Option then appealing them to do so and if they won't Respond to it Positively what Else I Can Do? Questioned by the Minister.He further said that All the Sections have accusing him for not Implementing the Professor Seneka Bibile's Drug Policy and the Trade Unions who are Behind these Accusations should realized that the Minister Can't Do it alone.Now most People are Grabbed the Prof.Bibile's Policy as their own Minister Charged.