Doctors can't face criminal cases for prescribing costlier drugs: HC
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Observing that prescribing any chemo drug or medicine to any patient is the sole prerogative and expertise of the treating doctor, the Orissa High Court recently quashed criminal proceedings against a doctor, who was accused of showing undue favour to various pharmaceutical companies and prescribing costlier medicines to the patients suffering from cancer.
The HC bench comprising Justice Aditya Kumar Mohapatra held that a doctor should not be held criminally liable for prescribing any particular drug of any pharma company unless the said drug(s) are hazardous, non-standard or substandard quality/brand, or restricted by the appropriate Authority of the Government.
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