The administration of Jinnah Medical Centre (JPMC) has miserably failed to break the nexus between doctors and powerful representatives of pharmaceutical companies in OPD hours as influence of medical reps continued to affect patients care in rush hours.
The medical sales representatives and medical practitioners were not following the directives issued by Sindh Health Department and hospital management. Due to poor check and balance system, doctors and medical reps nexus had badly affected patients care in rush hours.
The unchecked practice of representatives’ meeting with doctors during OPD hours makes the patients to suffer a lot in health facility as some doctors are prescribing costly medicines with the direction to purchase them from targeted medial stores so as to increase sales of their favorite pharmaceutical companies.
The hospital administration has failed to break nexus between doctors and medical reps as both are openly violating the medical ethics and values.
It has become common that representatives of pharmaceutical companies reach every day in JPMC about 09:00am and remain till 02:00pm without any hindrance. The medical reps keep visiting different wards and OPDs to get doctors attention by violating ban imposed by JPMC administration on them due to poor monitoring and vigilance system.
The influence of medical reps have badly affected the patient care in the hospital in rush hours as some doctors spend most of their time with them instead of providing consultation to patients who come from far-flung areas of Sindh province of treatment.
Executive Director, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC), Dr Shahid Rasool was not available for comments
