‘Playing with lives’: Akhilesh slams Centre after CDSCO flags use of ‘substandard’ drugs
The drug regulatory body has said that samples of around 50 drugs including paracetamol and some anti-bacterial medicines in the market were found to be of substandard quality
Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday (September 26) took a swipe at the Narendra Modi government after the country’s drug regulatory body found that samples of around 50 drugs including paracetamol were of 'substandard' quality. In a post on X, the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister also demanded an answer from the Centre on action taken on the matter.
The Central Drugs Standards Control Organisation (CDSCO) has reportedly found that samples of around 50 drugs, including that of widely-used paracetamol, pantoprazole and some antibiotics for treating bacterial infections, were of substandard quality.
“Today's corrupt BJP government should answer, will taking such medicine cure or make you sick? As long as BJP keeps collecting donations from companies, the business of low quality medicines will continue. Will any action be taken even after this report or will the matter be hushed up by increasing the rate of donations. This BJP game of playing with the lives of the public is not good. Condemnable!" Akhilesh said in his post.