Medicals run without registration in Myagdi

By Amrit Prasad Poudel, Myagdi, April 26: Human health is at grave risk because of the unregistered medical shops that are being operated in the second largest business centre of Myagdi, Darwang. The primary health centres are under operation in Darwang keeping in view the health care of the denizens of the western region. 

There is a medical shop attached to the gate of the primary health centre, which is nameless. Jung Bahadur Pun, an employee at the primary health centre, is running the shop that has neither obtained a license from the Department of Drug Administration (DDA) nor has it been registered at the Malika Rural Municipality.

Like Jung Bahadur, other seven people have been distributing medicines without a license from DDA or having them registered under the rural municipality.

Pun said that he has been running a medical shop without a license. He said, “Medical shops that have been running for over 10 years are not registered, it has not been much since the operation of my medical shop.”

Santa Kumari Karki, Chief of the Health Branch of the Malika Rural Municipality said that nine medical shops are running at the Darbang, which is the centre of the rural municipality. Two medical shops of the total nine medical shops (one Ayurvedic) are registered at the Department of Drug Administration but have not submitted papers to the rural municipality. 

Karki said that six medical shops are being operated without any registration. Even though employees in the health sector are running medical shops, they are not registered. 

Rajesh Thapa Magar, who is a public health inspector of the Malika Rural Municipality, is running a medical shop without a license. 

Even the shop run by the staff of the health branch of the rural municipality in a house attached to the Rural Municipality has neither permission from DDA nor registration anywhere.

Thapa admitted that he is running his medical shop without any registration even though he himself is an employee of the rural municipality and is held responsible to regulate the medical sector. 

He said, “I have not got a license to run a medical shop from DDA nor has it registered under the Rural Municipality.”