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NHRC issues notices to India’s Drugs Controller General, over medicines in Delhi Mohalla Clinics, not meeting standards

National Human Rights Commission has issued notices to the Delhi Chief Secretary, Drugs Controller General of India, and Delhi Police Commissioner over medicines in Delhi govt-run hospitals and Mohalla Clinics, not meeting the requisite standards. It took suo motu cognizance of a media report that a medicine ‘Sodium Valproate’, recommended for treatment of epilepsy in Delhi government-run hospitals and Mohalla Clinics, has been found to be not meeting the requisite standards as per a report issued by the Regional Drug Testing Laboratory RDTL Chandigarh and another medicine prescribed by the doctors for the treatment of epilepsy was also found to be inadequate.

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