Ahmedabad: While the desperate relatives make Beeline outside the pharmacy for important drugs for people they love fighting against mukormycosis, a little they know that posaconazol drugs are sold to them with the actual Cuvicon brand name.
This is the case of the first fake mukormycosis drug detected.
Food and Narcotics Administration (FDCA) last week handled fake drugs supplied by Telangana companies that did not have a license to make drugs.
The company produces tablets and syrup that claims to have posaconazol, which is approved as prophylaxis for invasive fungal infections in patients.
“In general, after the injection of amphotericin-B is managed, the doctor prescribes the posaconazole tablet or syrup for patients with mukormycosis.
Each cost of RS 1,000 tablets and a bottle of syrup with approximately Rs 20,500,” said Commissioner Gujarat FDCA HG Koshia.
FDCA has received a lab report on Tuesday that confirms that the tablet is fake.
It should be shown that in the range of eight months FDCA has detected various fraud covid drugs which include tovilizumab, remdesivir, favipiravir and now posaconazol.
At Ahmedabad, Siddha Pharmacy, and in a letter, Ambika Pharma is located near Jhapa Bazaar, used to get drugs from the manufacturer based in Turkapli City in Hyderabad, called Astra Generics Private Limited.
Telangana-based marketing companies, Aspen Biopharm are said to have supplied false drugs to Ahmedabad-based pharmacies, Gandhinagar and Letters.
According to press releases by FDCA, Vardhaman Pharma in Paldi, Shukan Medicals at Science City Rad and Delvich Healthcare in Sola Bhagwat Vidyapith sells fake drugs.
In the state capital, Gandhinagar, a fake drug is being sold from Polyvet Care Pharmacy in Sector 26.
“We are worried that Aspen’s marketing companies have sold fake drugs to many pharmacies throughout the country.
We have notified various FDCA countries about this,” Koshia said.
When asked how they detected the existence of false medicine, Koshia explained that the intelligence division was told about the availability of posaconazole in several pharmacies in the city.
“After we bought a few bottle of syrup, we found that Cuvicon had not approached the FDCA office in Telengana and Gujarat for manufacturing licenses and drug supplies.
This sample was immediately sent to the laboratory for the test where they reported false.”