No cold, cough medicines without prescription

RAJKOT: Jamnagar district collector, Ravi Shankar, on Monday has asked the medical shops in the district not to give give cold and cough medicines without prescriptions by doctors, in view of the increasing Covid-19 positive cases in the district.

“The cases have spiralled because patients don’t see doctors at initial stages. When they suffer from cold and cough, which are the initial symptoms of the disease, instead of going to the doctors, they buy medicines from the medical stores,” said Shankar. “If the patients see the doctors when they suffer from cold and cough, diagnosis at the initial stage can be done and the patients can get treatment at the beginning of Covid-19. At present, most of the Covid-19 patients get admitted to the hospital when they are at the last stage,” explained Shankar. “Hence, I urge all the medical stores and shops to not give medicines of cold and cough to the patients without the proper prescriptions from the doctors,” he said.