Mohan Kuthar
Daijiworld Media Network – Mangaluru (SS)
Mangaluru, Aug 16: A Kotekar resident in Ullal taluk has alleged that the tablets given to him for treatment of diabetes looked like rubber and were fake.
Ramagopal Acharya, a resident of Kotekar used to buy tablets for his wife Meena Kumari who is suffering from diabetes from a pharmacy.
When Ramagopal Acharya came across the news that sugar tablets are plastic, he wanted to examine whether the medicines that he bought were fake or real. He experimented with the tablets that he had by dissolving Isryl M (2 mg and 500 mg), Saridon and Calcium tablets in a glass of water in the night. In the morning that followed, he saw that Calcium and Saridon tablets had dissolved, but Isryl M used for treatment of diabetes had got bloated to five times its size and it looked like a rubber.
Surprised and anxious over the result, Ramagopal called up the owner of the pharmacy from where he bought the medicines who said they were getting the medicines officially from the companies. The medical shop owner directed Ramagopal Acharya to call up the medicine manufacturer's call centre to get a clarification.