By Dilanthi Jayamanne
The National Cosmetic Devices and Drugs Authority (NCDDA) took into its custody several intoxicating drugs, which could not be purchased without a doctor’s prescription, from a Super Market in Colombo. Health Ministry spokesman W. D. Wanninayake said yesterday that the NCDA had carried out the raid on a public complaint.
The drugs had been confiscated after the pharmacy in the supermarket had issued the intoxicating drugs to NCDDA officers without a doctor’s prescription. Wanninayake said there had been an unusual amount of ‘Corex – D’ and ‘Tramadol,’ stored in the drug cubicle of the supermarket. It had been revealed that the two drugs had been issued sans a doctor’s prescription when perusing the drug register. There has to be an inventory if drugs were retailed on prescription. However, the drug inventory revealed that the last entry had been made a few months ago.
There were approximately 650 bottles of ‘Corex –D’ and 3,000 ‘Tramadol’ tablets, he said quoting the NCDDA Chief, Dr. Hemantha Benaragama. He said that an overdose of the said drugs caused intoxication while they also caused side effects such as renal and liver diseases. "The NCDDA suspects that the large quantity of these two drug types had been stored by the Supermarket to retail them to school children during the Big Match fever," he alleged.
The NCDDA will seek legal advice on cancelling the trade permit of the private pharmacy in the super market while a special team had been appointed to carry out raids on private pharmacies which issued drugs without prescriptions. Wanninayake urged parents to be conscious of the wellbeing of their children.
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