Lucknow, Oct. 3 -- The Food Safety and Drug Administration, Uttar Pradesh (UPFSDA) is continuing its statewide special campaign to make quality medicines available to patients at fair prices and to make the purchase and sale of medicines in hospital pharmacies transparent.
In this series of actions, the department's teams carried out surprise inspections of the pharmacies of 12 private hospitals in Lucknow between September 30 and October 1.
In this campaign, teams of 26 drug inspectors checked, as a priority, the availability of pharmacists in hospital pharmacies, medical oxygen, billing and stock records of life-saving medicines, cold-chain maintenance, storage arrangements, quality of medicines, and the rates at which hospitals purchas...