The Gujarat Food and Drug Control Administration (FDCA) is mulling over an idea to utilise its e-governance system to strengthen the drug withdrawal system in the state by alerting the retail pharmacists and the district level regulatory officials on any batch of medicines found not of standard quality in the drug testing lab.
The FDCA, which is in the final stage of completing the e-governance project to issue sales and product licenses for drugs through online and monitoring, has moved a plea to the state health ministry to allot fund to add a software to the existing system for the purpose.
Through the software, all the licensed retail pharmacists would automatically alerted through short message services (SMSs) right at the time when a not-of-quality standard or spurious drug test result is fed into the computer in the state drug testing lab, said H G Koshia, commissioner, Gujarat FDCA.
