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1. India sells the largest number of branded drugs in the world, almost 60,000 in all. By volume,
India is ranked 4th and comprises Spercent of the global pharma market. This scenario becomes
scary given that spurious and substandard drugs are a thriving parallel industry in our country.
2. Self-medication with genuine drugs also has fallouts. While Dr. Simran Nundy, consultant gastro-
intestinal surgeon at Delhi's Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, observes : "patients come to me, after six
months of taking antacids, to find they're not suffering from indigestion but cancer of the
stomach or gastric tract." Most medical experts say pill name-dropping is common. But besides
superficial awareness, patients know little about dosage, duration and more importantly, side-
effects.
3. Besides, no drug, not even an over the counter (OTC) medicine is totally safe. Aspirin on an
empty stomach may lead to severe gastritis. Even paracetamol, considered the safest painkiller,
when taken in high doses or for prolonged periods, can cause liver damage. Then there's is
carelessness. Dr. Gupta observes: " people take cough suppressant for a cough with sputum,
which infact requires an expectorant. Or, they consume antibiotics without a doctor's prescription
for viral fever, allergic cold, dry cough flu or sore throat, which do not require any antibiotic.
4. What make us such willing pill-swallowers? Dr. Wishvas Rane, Pune -based health activist
asserts: " Most viral conditions are self-limiting ; 80 percent get cured on their own. This pill
popping attitude is nurtured by pharmaceutical firms”. This is particularly true in our unique
pharma-sale culture where pills are available without bills and bills can be obtained without buying
pill. Dr. Ashish Sabherwal, Joint Secretary, Indian Medical Association in Delhi, point out : "
Patients just want momentary relief and aren't willing to get to the root of the problem, so pills are
eaten like peanuts".
5. Another reason for spiralling self-treatment is that general practitioners or GPS, doctors who
have shone the torch down our throats from our toothless babyhood to our aiming adulthood, are
gradually vanishing.
6. In real life, we patients do not have a family friend and a philosophers -our GPs who know us by
blood group, allergies, medical history and emotional upheavals. Hesitant about dashing off to
intimidating ENT specialist when we have throat trouble, we just check with the chemist. That
could be a dose for disaster.
A. Answer the following questions briefly. 2*4=8
1. Why can self-medication have dangerous results?
2. How can self-medication of antibacterial drugs be dangerous?
3. What are the reasons for spiralling sef-treatment?
4. How has the pill-popping attitude become so common?
8. Find a word in the passage which conveys similar meaning as the following. 1x4-4​

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