Scan combo drugs
commonly used medicines like Becosule, Dexorange and Corex figure in the list of medicines that the government wanted removed from the market last year. But these medicines, classified under fixed dose combinations, or fdcs, continue to be sold. The pharma industry is reviewing the list currently. Health activists fear that companies may use this opportunity to their advantage.
The Drug Controller General of India (dcgi), responsible for controlling the sale of such medicines, had issued an order in October 2007, stating 294 fdcs should be removed from the market. In 2005, the National Commission on Macroeconomics and Health in its report claimed that 10 of the country