“Everything grows, and you can keep your body healthy. Do you prepare Angong?” “The weather is warm and cold, which can easily induce cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. During the spring, you must resist evil. Angong Niuhuang Pills and Angong Qingxin Pills are available in the store… …” With the advent of the Spring Festival, many pharmacies in the provincial capital are vigorously selling Angong Niuhuang Pills and Angong Qingxin Pills, and various propaganda voices and banners abound.
Recently, the Provincial Food and Drug Administration issued a reminder on drug safety consumption. The core of the reminder is that “Angong Niuhuang Pill” is a prescription drug, and it can only be purchased with a prescription for symptomatic use after a doctor’s diagnosis. This medicine is an emergency medicine in traditional Chinese medicine, and the “function and indications” in the state-approved instructions does not have the function of preventing disease and promoting health care.
However, the reporter recently visited some chain pharmacies in the provincial capital, such as Wanmin Pharmacy, Renhe Pharmacy, Ronghua Pharmacy, Guoda Pharmacy and other stores, and found that consumers do not need a prescription to buy Angong Niuhuang Pills. Even some pharmacy salesmen openly claim that “we will do everything”.
According to relevant regulations, pharmacies must have formal prescriptions for the sale of prescription drugs. In the Yangshi Street store of Guoda Pharmacy, when a reporter asked if Angong Niuhuang Pill was a prescription drug and whether it could be purchased without a prescription, the shopping guide said that the prescription It will be prescribed by a cloud doctor online, and it will be ready in a few minutes, without the reporter providing it. When the reporter asks again, it is purchased for the elderly at home, but the elderly are not in the local area. The shopping guide immediately said that this does not require patients to prescribe in person.
The same problem, the shopping guide of Wanmin Pharmacy Xinjian North Road Store and Renhe Pharmacy said, “We have a doctor in our store, and the prescription can be filled at any time. You only need to say to buy a few boxes. Let’s do it.” The shopping guide at Wanmin Pharmacy North Street Store is more straightforward, no prescription is needed, just buy it directly. The clerk surnamed Li of Ronghua Pharmacy’s Old City Street store gave the same answer. They can buy without a prescription. At the same time, they said that they all have sales tasks, so they must find her when buying.
In response to this phenomenon, some professional doctors said that some pharmacies are useless in order to sell prescription drugs. In order to sell drugs, pharmacies try their best to avoid supervision. Pursuing interests becomes the only goal, which is an irresponsible behavior for users.
In this regard, the Provincial Food and Drug Administration reminds consumers that they should follow the doctor’s advice and consume rationally when purchasing and taking Angong Niuhuang Pills. Consumers should not blindly listen to propaganda. If they find false propaganda and illegal sales, they can call 12315 to complain. Our reporter Zhang Dajun
[Editor-in-charge Zhang Shuai]