The Tamil Nadu Drugs Control Directorate has initiated stringent action against 14 medical stores functioning in the city suburbs for selling sleeping pills without prescription.All the shops were given memos by the drugs control administration seeking explanation for the alleged malpractice.
According to Director of the Drugs Control department, the state health department has received complaints from public that certain pharmacy shops outside the city are selling sleeping pills without prescription. He said according to the instruction of the health minister and the secretary, the DDC has formed five groups of drug inspectors who have conducted surprise raids on 14 pharmacy shops on Saturday in various places adjacent to the city.M Bhaskaran, the drugs controller, said the inspectors have taken possession of the sales and stock registers of medicines from these stores for flouting the norms of Drugs and Cosmetics Act.
Pharmacies operating at Padappai, Mannivakkam, Mudichur, Perungalathur and Sriperumpudur were subjected to the regulators' actions. The stores working in Padappai are Muthayya Medicals and Sridevi Medical stores. In Perungalathur, the pharmacies received notices are Duke & Co, Pharma Unlimited, Sri Venkiteswara Medicals & General Stores, and Jayasree Medicals.
In Mudichur, action was initiated against Sri Mahalakshmi Medicals, Stanely Medicals & General Stores, and Jose Medicals.In Sriperumpudur, medical stores such as Sri Vasuki Medicals, Sri Ambal Medicals, and Sridevi Medicals. Action was also taken against Ravi Medicals at East Tambaram and Sri Sai Ram Medicals at Old Perungalathur
