NEW DELHI: To promote low-cost generic medicines, the government’s top drug regulatory board has allowed Jan Aushadhi Kendras — which are like fair price shops for medicines under the Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana — to substitute doctor’s prescription with a generic brand.
On Thursday, the Drugs Technical Advisory Board cleared a proposal to amend a rule under the drugs law. “This proposal asking permission for chemists to substitute brands prescribed by doctors with other brands was pending for a very long time. For the time being, we have allowed only Jan Aushadhi stores to do so because we want to watch it on a trial basis,” an official said. So far, chemists were legally not allowed to replace the brand or the medicine prescribed by a doctor.
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