New Delhi, Nov. 5 -- Delhi is making every effort to ensure that only genuine, safe and quality-assured medicines are supplied across the national capital, Health Minister Dr Pankaj Kumar Singh has said.
Therefore the department concerned has intensified its crackdown on spurious, counterfeit and unauthorised medicines.
Under Chief Minister Rekha Gupta's leadership, the government is strengthening regulatory oversight and taking stringent action against those violating the provisions of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940, to safeguard public health.
During the previous quarter period, the Drugs Control Department conducted 569 inspections and observed 272 contraventions, including 86 instances relating to habit-forming and psychotropic dr...