Pharmacy salesman dispensed wrong medicine: chicken pox instead of Anti fungal

A pharmacy salesman from Feni dispensed medicine for chicken pox but the patient asked for anti-fungal medicine. A patient named Mr. Arif went to a physician Mizanur Rahman Beg of Bayezid’s Health Service Center located in Mukto Bazar, Feni for the treatment of nail fungus by the consultancy fee of BDT 700/-. Then the physician prescribed some medication for nail problems and told the patient to buy from their own pharmacy.

When the patient went to the Pharmacy and shown his prescription the pharmacy salesman gave a medicine named Clarixol ointment and told the patient that another 2 medicines Terbex cream & tablet were not available to them right then. But they have another company’s same generic medicine.

The patient asked the pharmacy salesman to confirm whether the same generic or not, was confirmed by the pharmacy salesman. Then the patient bought all that 3 medicines Clarixol & Novirax and back to his own home.

feni-pharmacy-problemThe patient was confused after checking the insert into the medicine box of Novirax where he found that this was the medicine for chicken pox. Then he also checked both medicines prescribed by the physician Terbex is Terbinafine which is used in Anti-fungal treatment but Novirax is Acyclovir which is used in Chicken pox treatment.

Then he returned again to the physician’s chamber and found the physician was busy with patients. After a certain period, the patient explained the whole matter to the physician. Then the physician told the patient “That is the problem of that pharmacy, not mine” though the physician suggested the patient buy from that pharmacy.

Then the patient went to that pharmacy and returned his money by changing the medicine and purchasing the medicines from another pharmacy. The patient Mr. Arif said this is a general factor of our healthcare system. Now need to be aware of our medication.

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