Pharmaceuticals Department will meet drug makers on 18th of July to discuss on making marketing code compulsory for the manufacturers. Drug marketing code aims to stop the unethical practices of offering prices and gifts by the manufacturers to doctors to prescribe their medicines for patients. The manufacturers covers this expense by including them with the cost of drugs which are borne by the patients. The code restricts the companies in offering any prices or promising gifts or sponsoring any trips directly or indirectly. By making the code compulsory, patients will be relieved from additional cost borne by them.
