http://www.ndtv.com/news/cities/tamil-nadus-deadly-drug-scam-unearthed-18418.php
While all Indians are exceptionally talented in wide ranging areas and roles from politics to cricket, film star to god men, the most “ancient language” speaking state in India is endowed with unusual talents to a good measure and there is a poetic justice to it. They are trend setters to the rest of the world.
Is it fair to put a label on life-saving drug and make it expire after 24 or 36 months? How can drugs helping people avoiding expiry, expire? This is illogical. A genius recognized the truth behind it. Drugs are like Sanjeevani and their purpose is to save lives and they are immortal. They have self-preservation properties. Have you ever heard of gold or silver or pattu sarees or wine expiring?
Let us face the facts. India is still a poor country despite having handful of multi-billionaires in US dollar terms. We have unusually high wastage and shortage of food and medicines. Food only sustains life. Medicines give second lease of life. While food has a short shelf life and is difficult and expensive to prolong its life, drugs (read as medicines) are amenable to a fresh lease of life by a simple and inexpensive operation of replacing the label. They can be discharged from the warehouse same day! One should admire and reward the ingenuity of the kingpin, the brain behind this operation and the savior of thousands of crores worth of medicines from expiring . Whoever it is, this genius should be awarded with Bharat Ratna without any delay for his yeomen service to the nation and public by demonstrating that drugs do not really expire. India should launch an all out effort to get him, for his efforts to save the lives of medicines, a Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Scary.. seems like you may take the indians out of India but you cannot take the "India" out of them.
ReplyDeleteI do run into similar problems thankfully not medicines though when I go to buy grocery at the local indian store.At,this point I do not think it would be right to blame the store owner for stocking such goods as the expired goods still carry the old labels,it is me to blame that I do not closely examine an indian good for the date
At the age of three or four my daughter asked our family doctor, while he was about administer her an injection, whether he had checked the expiry date which left him shocked. Our savior found an answer to these smart alecks!
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