Medical board ordered in 2014 that pharmacy clinics be closed

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HEALTH secretary Dr Osborne Liko says the medical board in 2014 ordered registered pharmacies to immediately close clinics operating within their premises.
He said pharmaceutical companies were advised that operating such clinics was illegal.
“But (they) blatantly are still operating the illegal nursing stations and clinics seven years on unscrupulously,” he said in a statement.
He was replying to a statement by Sir Mahesh Patel, the founder of the City Pharmacy Ltd, who questioned the need to close the 27 clinics/nursing stations the company was operating around the country.
Dr Liko, also the chairman of the Pharmacy Board and Licensing Authority, said there were “others also operating nursing stations” who would comply and ask the medical board “to rectify such anomalies”.
He said Sir Mahesh had become “one of the successful foreign entrepreneurs in the country who should adhere to the country’s rule of law”.
He said that for more than seven years, CPL pharmacy outlets “operated 32 illegal nursing stations not registered with the medical boards and operated outside medical standards safety guidelines”.
He said the 32 nursing stations failed to pay “appropriate fees to the medical board, at the disadvantage of many private clinics and hospitals”.
Dr Liko said nurses at such clinics were not qualified “and not permitted to prescribe any medications without the supervision of an accredited competent medical practitioner”.

3 comments

  • Me and my family go to City Pharmacy Clinic and I think they are the most efficient health service providers. If they are not in line with some Safety Guide Lines they should be told of rectify or penalize them. By closing down the stations you are forcing people to go to the expensive private clinics.

  • My family and I prefer going to City Pharmacy Clinics to seek medical assistance as their services are fast and charge reasonable fees for medication. Closing the down the clinics will adversely affect the general public who frequent the city pharmacy clinics.

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