Rajiv Mahajan
NURPUR, MAY 13
The Kangra administration has swung into action following a story “Black-marketing of health devices on the rise in Kangra” appeared in the columns of The Tribune on Thursday.
District Magistrate Rakesh Prajapati today ordered the health authorities to launch a crackdown to check the hoarding and overpricing of medical check-up devices and medicines in the district.
The District Magistrate stated that no medical equipment or medicine would be overcharged by any medical shop, chemist, vendor or wholesaler within the district. In his order to the Assistant Drug Controller, he had ordered to conduct raids on the premises of the medical equipment and shops to check overpricing of any medical device or medicine. He also directed the authorities to register an FIR against the violators.
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