Four Hyderabad pharmacies face show-cause notices

The EAGLE Force, Telangana, along with officials of Telangana Standards Authority for Food and Essential Drugs (TG SAFE), conducted inspections at four medical establishments in Hyderabad.

During the inspections, officials found several alleged regulatory violations, including failure to maintain prescribed Schedule Registers, non-production of sale bills and deficiencies in records relating to Schedule H/H1 and habit-forming drugs.

At Al-Hamra Medical & General Store, Masab Tank, prescribed registers and sale bills for



certain medicines were not maintained or produced. Similar deficiencies were found at MM Medical and General Store (MED24 Pharmacy) in Mallepally.

At First Step Drug Mart, Tolichowki, the pharmacist was absent during the inspection and the Schedule H1 Drugs Register was not produced. Officials also noticed discrepancies in the purchase and sale records of habit-forming medicines. 

At Hayat Pharmacy, Tolichowki, the prescribed Schedule H1 and prescription registers, besides certain sale bills, were not produced for verification.