Fixed combination drugs provide the same results as basic drugs do, yet cost more! How would you feel if you went shopping for socks and the salesman sold you not only socks but shoes and shirt with it? Cheated, disappointed and angry right! Imagine the same scenario happening when it comes to your basic medicines.

What’s happening is that, the doctor’s these days are prescribing various fixed combination drugs (FDC) which cost considerably more than a basic drug, which would have had provided the same treatment effect to the patient! For e.g. Sumoflam, a combination drug consisting of paracetamol, nimesulide and serratiopeptidase which costs Rs 53 per 10 tablets is being prescribed for fever and Pain, when a simple paracetamol costing Rs 10 per 10 tablets, would have sufficed and given the same results as Sumoflam.

 With health care experts pointing out that most combinations have no medical logic whatsoever, it clearly seems like an attempt by the drug makers to exhort money from patients.What’s even more shocking about this whole nefarious affair is that certain FDCs also have side effects on vital organs, making it not only a costly but an unhealthy drug choice. This issue has bought to fore the desperate need for an unbiased flow of information to be provided to the doctors (private practitioners) about drugs, as their only source of information right now are the drug making companies themselves!

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