JAIPUR: In a probe conducted by Food Safety and Drug Control Commissionerate (FSDCC), 101 pharmacists were given registration or in the process of allotment of registration by Rajasthan Pharmacy Council (RPC) on fake documents.
The FSDCC was investigating the matter as in 2022 unprecedented rise in registration of pharmacists was reported. Those pharmacists getting RPC registration are allowed to work at chemist or even as a pharmacist at drug distribution counter of free medicine scheme in government hospitals.Procuring RPC registration on fake document could pose risk for patients.
Health department’s drug controller (I) Ajay Phatak said, “In 2022, around 12,000 registrations of pharmacists were done by RPC. Normally, on an average, every year 2,000 to 3,000 registrations happened in the past. The investigation initiated and 101 pharmacists were found procuring RPC registration on fake documents.”
The FSDCC officials have not ruled out that list of such pharmacists procuring registration could become longer if detailed investigation of around 12,000 registrations will be done. The state government had stopped the process of recruitment of pharmacists due to complaints of pharmacists applying for jobs on RPC registration given on fake documents.
On Tuesday, FSDCC’s commissioner Nakate Shivprasad Madan wrote to RPC president informing that they investigated into several complaints regarding registration of many pharmacists on fake diploma and degree certificates by RPC. “Few such complaints were got investigated on preliminary inquiry and some of the universities have refused having registered the candidates on indicated enrolment numbers. Few of such pharmacists are registered whose registration numbers are mentioned in the list or others may be in the process of registration,” he wrote in the letter.
The five teams of FSDCC checked with YBN University in Ranchi and found that 45 candidates produced fake diploma / degree of the university, as they did not find any records of such enrolment numbers in the university. They checked with IEC University in Solan of Himachal Pradesh and found 14 candidates had produced fake document of the university as the university denied that they were not students at the university. Similarly, Swami Vivekanand University in Sagar in MP, IFTM University Muradabad in UP found the document fake of the candidates. The FSDCC checked with Bihar state Pharmacy Council and found that 10 candidates had submitted fake registration certification to RPC.
Madan directed the PRC to check the documents of these candidates at RPC’s end and take appropriate action as per Pharmacy Act 1948. The FSDCC has directed the RPC to provide the commissionerate the copies of all documents of these candidates on the basis of which they have been registered as pharmacists by the RPC or who have applied and their registration as pharmacist is in process, so that the government may be apprised of for the same.
The FSDCC was investigating the matter as in 2022 unprecedented rise in registration of pharmacists was reported. Those pharmacists getting RPC registration are allowed to work at chemist or even as a pharmacist at drug distribution counter of free medicine scheme in government hospitals.Procuring RPC registration on fake document could pose risk for patients.
Health department’s drug controller (I) Ajay Phatak said, “In 2022, around 12,000 registrations of pharmacists were done by RPC. Normally, on an average, every year 2,000 to 3,000 registrations happened in the past. The investigation initiated and 101 pharmacists were found procuring RPC registration on fake documents.”
The FSDCC officials have not ruled out that list of such pharmacists procuring registration could become longer if detailed investigation of around 12,000 registrations will be done. The state government had stopped the process of recruitment of pharmacists due to complaints of pharmacists applying for jobs on RPC registration given on fake documents.
On Tuesday, FSDCC’s commissioner Nakate Shivprasad Madan wrote to RPC president informing that they investigated into several complaints regarding registration of many pharmacists on fake diploma and degree certificates by RPC. “Few such complaints were got investigated on preliminary inquiry and some of the universities have refused having registered the candidates on indicated enrolment numbers. Few of such pharmacists are registered whose registration numbers are mentioned in the list or others may be in the process of registration,” he wrote in the letter.
The five teams of FSDCC checked with YBN University in Ranchi and found that 45 candidates produced fake diploma / degree of the university, as they did not find any records of such enrolment numbers in the university. They checked with IEC University in Solan of Himachal Pradesh and found 14 candidates had produced fake document of the university as the university denied that they were not students at the university. Similarly, Swami Vivekanand University in Sagar in MP, IFTM University Muradabad in UP found the document fake of the candidates. The FSDCC checked with Bihar state Pharmacy Council and found that 10 candidates had submitted fake registration certification to RPC.
Madan directed the PRC to check the documents of these candidates at RPC’s end and take appropriate action as per Pharmacy Act 1948. The FSDCC has directed the RPC to provide the commissionerate the copies of all documents of these candidates on the basis of which they have been registered as pharmacists by the RPC or who have applied and their registration as pharmacist is in process, so that the government may be apprised of for the same.
