No central data on action against doctors for not prescribing generic medicines, informs MoS Health
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The Union Minister of State for Health Smt. Anupriya Patel informed the Rajya Sabha recently that the Central Government has no data on disciplinary actions taken against registered medical practitioners (RMPs) who failed to prescribe generic names of medicines.
In response to the queries raised by Rajya Sabha member Shri Saktisinh Gohil, the Union MoS Health informed that "No data related to number of disciplinary proceedings and penalties against RMPs in the past five years is maintained centrally by the Ministry."
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