Not without prescription: Govt to crack whip on arbitrary antibiotic sales

It is mandatory to show prescription to procure some drugs, but chemists violate these norms

As misuse of antibiotics has begun claiming lives, the Drugs Controller General of India Dr G N Singh told Business Standard that the centre is issuing an advisory to all state drug controllers asking them to crack the whip on arbitrary sale of antibiotics. GN Singh says that the state controllers will help ensure that no chemist in India sells antibiotics without a valid prescription. 

Singh is of the opinion that even the least powerful antibiotics can prove fatal if taken more than the prescribed dosage. Thus, preventing people from taking unnecessary doses of antibiotics becomes necessary.

Even though antibiotics