A patient has taken over the sales girl employed at government authorized medical shops outside MB hospital today for giving wrong medicine.

The sales girl however admits her mistake but blamed the authority for putting them on job without training.

Hospital authority also agreed that, sales person are not trained yet, but their training sessions are already started. Not taking the responsibility, hospital administration gave several excuses and fewer ways to resolve the confusion.

According to sources, a woman patient Indira Kumari from Kejad came to Life Line Medical counter with a prescription for several medicines. By mistake, the sales girl gave her Clotrimazole, instead of Clobetasol.

Indra Kumari when went to another medical shop, she gave the prescription to shopkeeper and coincidently while checking, the shopkeeper told her that she brought wrong medicine.

“Both medicines are different and cannot be used as a substitute”, says a local medicine shop owner.

“I don’t understand doctor’s writing which caused the mistake” says the sales girl. When asked since how long she is working here, she said that she is newly appointed and didn’t even get formal training.

Dr. D.P Singh told UT on phone that, “If they (sales person) don’t understand anything they can ask their colleagues or any other senior available at that time”.

“Patients should be directed back to the doctor and ask them to re-write medicine in BLOCK letters”, says Dr. Singh.

Indira Kumari was fortunate, but there might be many who are taking medicine just over the counter without even prescription.

With the setting up Chief Minister’s Free Medicine Shops, all old employees who were on contract basis are taken out from job and newly appointed team is taking control of both Life Line and Free Medicine Shops at MB hospital.

Questions also rise on the doctor who prescribed Clobetasol, which is not in the stock. “This medicine is used for skin treatment and is not in stock, how doctor can write it, and why the sales girl is unknown with this fact that the medicine is not available” said another pharmacist.