Strict Implementation of section 42 of 1948 Pharmacy act to save Public health and Pharmacy Profession

As per Section 42 of the Pharmacy Act, 1948 no person other than a registered pharmacist shall compound, prepare, mix, or dispense any medicine on the prescription of a medical practitioner

Pharmacists are Drug ig Experts and have good knowledge of Dispensing, storage of medicines

A right dose at right time, by right Pharmacist cures the disease

A medicine or Drug in non Pharmacists is Poison 

Now a days some Pharmacists are renting the certificate for many to other non Pharmacists is a serious offense

Other non Pharmacists operating Pharmacy medical stores and Dispensing medicines without Prescriptions and control this causes serious health effect to public 

Example :

1)Theophylline and Ciprofloxacin

Concurrent administration may lead to toxic increases in theophylline. This problem occurs because the hepatic metabolism of theophylline is inhibited by ciprofloxacin via the cytochrome P-450 enzyme system. Theophylline is metabolized by CYP1A2 and to a lesser extent by CYP3A4. Ciprofloxacin and other drugs, including clarithromycin, erythromycin, fluvoxamine, and cimetidine, are all potent inhibitors of CYP1A2. Because they have little effect on CYP1A2, levofloxacin or ofloxacin should be considered as an alternative to ciprofloxacin. Theophylline toxicity is a serious condition; several deaths have been linked with serum concentrations as low as 25 mcg/mL.Signs of theophylline toxicity include headache, dizziness, hypotension, hallucinations, tachycardia, and seizures.

2)Heavy usage of Antibiotics wakens Immune system. 

3)uncontrolled dispensing of Sleeping pills

Pharmacy council of india, High Court,MoHFW Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Government of India.    Contact the author of the petition