There is a dangerous game in healthcare happening in India. You must know this and be prepared and beware of online E-pharmacy companies like @pharmeasyapp
A person attaches a doctor's prescription for diabetes medications for his father to purchase from this online pharmacy.
The online e-pharmacy, @pharmeasyapp acknowledges this and then gives the customer a call back - and on the pretext of "confirming" the order/prescription, the caller on the other end (supposedly a pharmacist) suggests that the patient be given a herbal supplement also, along with the diabetes medication - because it is natural/chemical-free/ and will be more effective.
The customer, repeatedly asks the "pharmacist" why this is suggested. To which, the @pharmeasyapp employee replies that THEY ARE COMPELLED by the company policy which FORCES them to dump & sell untested, unknown herbal products in the pretext of good-will, on gullible and un-assuming customers.
The employee then provides as an excuse that "the customer can decline the suggestion if they did not want it."
This particular customer, @abhijit_MLab is an informed person -> well-informed about his father's condition, the importance of of empirical evidence in prescription drugs and the potential harms of non-evidence based herbal supplements - because of which, he could easily question and escape potential harms from PharmEasy's "business of selling" herbal products.
But the majority of Indian people are not well informed about healthcare options. A large proportion of Indian patients and their families still believe that herbal supplements are safe and chemical free. They are not. They harm more and they have no conclusive benefits. They are peddled by alternative medicine practitioners, Ayush companies and blood-sucking E-pharmacies to monetize on the gullibility and scientidic-illiteracy of the Indian health-seeking population.
Pharmacists cannot practice & prescribe medications. An e-pharmacist does not even see the patient face to face. They have no clue about the patient's history and disease management.
Here are the rules that every pharmacist must follow - https://t.co/TNZGR4Icui - PharmEasy business honchos, please educate yourself and update your employees lest you face jail time because some patient died because of your "nonsense integrated medicine."
These are bottom-feeder scum - that not only monetize intentionally on their own patients/families lack of health-literacy, but also plays on the business of emotions to provide them false hope, to escalate their sales. Utterly shameless, worst people in the community.
Now the elephant in the room. Herbals have been identified to have glucose lowering plant compounds. BUT none of these herbal supplements are approved or recommended for treating diabetes.
In fact, Prof. Anoop Misra wrote in the Lancet that "Alternative medicines for diabetes in India was maximum hype, minimum science." - https://t.co/tkP5vu10a7
Many herbal drugs disguised as useful for diabetes are adulterated with undisclosed drugs [as reported in The Lancet - A herbal treatment for type 2 diabetes adulterated with undisclosed drugs - https://t.co/Wv6s5LcAom]...
...and can lower glucose levels leading to hypoglycemia and death - remember the pilot who took both standard medicines and herbal medicines for diabetes and crashed a flight because he went into a hypoglycemic brain failure mid air?
Unprescribed Medicines May Have Affected Pilot: Kerala Air Crash Report - https://t.co/BGvGqqZ2lt
If a customer's family member had indeed started on the herbal drugs along with the diabetes medications and suffered hypoglycemia and died or if the herbal supplements reduced the effectiveness of standard diabetes medications and the family member developed complications of diabetes...
...WOULD PHARMEASY be responsible for it?
Or was it the customer's fault that she/he did not know any better that they were being fooled?
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