1. Home
  2. Pharmaceutical companies accused of violating law of the land

Pharmaceutical companies accused of violating law of the land

August 18, 2011

Udupi, Aug 18: Activits of Association of Medical Representatives, Udupi District, on Wednesday carried out a one day strike and took out a bike rally from Manipal to DC Office Udupi, pressing for their demands.

Dr Annappa Kudwa, HoD of KMC Manipal, Manipal, flagged off the bike rally at Tiger Circle, Manipal. CITU District Secretary Vishwanath Rai was the chief guest and stressed the need for creating awareness about the Labour Laws and Employee benefits under the law. Secretary of the Association Madhusoodhan Heroor, Raviraj HP, Annayya Das, Manjunath, Guruprasad, Ishwar Bhat and others participated in the bike rally. They submitted a memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner with their demands. In the memorandum they alleged that both Indian and multinational pharmaceutical companies have been violating law of the land and employing illegal means to market their products.

In the process they have been manipulating the services of Medical Representatives. If the Medical Representatives fail to fulfill the targets they would be forced to lose their jobs. ``Under such a situation we demand the appointment letter to all the medical representatives, leave facilities, job registry and promotion as per the Employees Act. We also demand six months labour holidays for the woman medical reps'', they said.

On the other hand prices of medicines have been on a steep rise. Poor quality and duplicate medicines have been rampant in the market. Pharma companies have been marketing their products using illegal means, they said. They also demanded the government to increase the number medicines coming under the Essential Medicines Act from the present 74 to 354. They also demanded the government to rejuvenate the public sector pharmaceutical companies.

STRK_3

STRK_1

STRK_2

Comments

Add new comment

About text formats
  • Coastaldigest.com reserves the right to delete or block any comments.
  • Coastaldigset.com is not responsible for its readers’ comments.
  • Comments that are abusive, incendiary or irrelevant are strictly prohibited.
  • Please use a genuine email ID and provide your name to avoid reject.
News Network
April 3,2020

Bengaluru, April 3: One new positive case of COVID-19 was reported in the state on Friday.

The patient is a 75-year-old man from Bagalkot and has been isolated at a designated hospital in Bagalkot, the State government said.

"Till date, 125 COVID-19 cases have been confirmed in the state, this includes three deaths and 11 discharges," it added.

The total number of coronavirus positive cases rose to 2301 in India on Friday, including 156 cured/discharged, 56 deaths and 1 migrated, as per the data provided by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

Comments

Add new comment

About text formats
  • Coastaldigest.com reserves the right to delete or block any comments.
  • Coastaldigset.com is not responsible for its readers’ comments.
  • Comments that are abusive, incendiary or irrelevant are strictly prohibited.
  • Please use a genuine email ID and provide your name to avoid reject.
News Network
May 2,2020

Hubli, May 2: Around 1400 migrant workers from neighbouring districts, working at brick manufacturing factories in Hubli were sent to their respective districts on buses, amid coronavirus lockdown on Friday.

Dr Purushottam, Nodal Officer, COVID-19 task force said, "Total 1473 labourers from eight neighbouring districts, working in the brick manufacturing units of our district were sent by 74 buses. 876 labourers are from Kalburgi where we are sending 44 buses, 350 labourers are from Vijaypura where we are sending 27 buses."

He continued saying that 20 persons will be accommodated in a bus while maintaining social distancing.

"Before the labourers boarded, the buses were disinfected. NWKRTC officials took a special interest in doing so. The District Collector has written letters to the concerned DCs regarding shifting of labourers in every bus, one Nodal Officer will handover them to the local officials," Dr Purushottam added.

On Friday, the buses were sent to seven districts and one bus will be sent today.

Comments

Add new comment

About text formats
  • Coastaldigest.com reserves the right to delete or block any comments.
  • Coastaldigset.com is not responsible for its readers’ comments.
  • Comments that are abusive, incendiary or irrelevant are strictly prohibited.
  • Please use a genuine email ID and provide your name to avoid reject.
News Network
March 5,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 5: Karnataka chief minister BS Yediyurappa on Wednesday admitted in the legislative assembly that corruption was deep-rooted in government offices and held transfer racket as the root cause of the graft menace.

“Unless we root it out from the system, we can never uphold the spirit of the Constitution and ensure equitable justice to people. If legislators lend support (to this cause), then we can weed out this menace,” Yediyurappa said during a special discussion on the Constitution.

Successive governments have been accused by opposition parties of running a transfer racket, but there’s very little done to institute a probe or order a crackdown following the allegations.

The chief minister’s candid admission came after senior Congress MLA HK Patil, quoting a report from Amnesty International, said 63% of people in Karnataka give bribe to get their work done in government offices. The CM said he agreed with the report in toto.

Comments

Add new comment

About text formats
  • Coastaldigest.com reserves the right to delete or block any comments.
  • Coastaldigset.com is not responsible for its readers’ comments.
  • Comments that are abusive, incendiary or irrelevant are strictly prohibited.
  • Please use a genuine email ID and provide your name to avoid reject.