PUL-E-ALAM (SW) – A number of residents of different districts of Logar complain about the low quality and high price of medicine in private pharmacies in this province.
In conversation with Salam Watandar, they said that the price of medicine in private pharmacies in the city of Pul-e-Alam, the center of Logar and a number of surrounding districts is determined arbitrarily. The residents of Logar want the public health department of this province to control the quality and price of medicines in the pharmacies of this province.
Bismullah, a resident of Logar, says: “We have to buy whatever medicine the doctors prescribe. The doctor prescribed this medicine for me and I bought it for 3000 afghanis. The government should fully control the prices, date and quality of medicine.”
On the other hand, a number of patients in Logar say that private pharmacies in some remote areas in this province sell outdated medicines to patients.
Shukrallah, a patient at one of the pharmacies in Pule-e-Alam city, says: “There is a medicine, but the prices are high and the quality is not good. Some of them have no date. Officials of many pharmacies sell outdated medicine to residents of remote or illiterate areas.”
However, the officials of public health department say that a committee has been appointed to solve this problem and after Charkh district, the quality and price of medicine will be fully controlled in Pol Alam city as well.
Syed Rahman Qadri, head of public health in Logar, says that serious action will be taken against any private pharmacy in Pul-e-Alam city and other districts of this province that sells low-quality, outdated and high-priced drugs to patients. He says: “Now the provincial authorities in coordination with the Department of Public Health are checking the quality and price of drugs in Charkh district, and after its completion, the quality, history and price of drugs will be checked in Pul-e-Alam city to solve this problem completely. be.”
It should be mentioned that the residents of some other provinces also complain about the sale of low-quality and outdated medicines at high prices in pharmacies.
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