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SALES REPRESENTATIVES PROTEST BAN ON ENTRY TO MCHS Thursday, 16 January 2014 | PNS | BALANGIR | in Bhubaneswar

SALES REPRESENTATIVES PROTEST BAN ON ENTRY TO MCHS
Thursday, 16 January 2014 | PNS | BALANGIR | in Bhubaneswar

Members of the local unit of the Odisha Sales Representatives’ Union (OSRU) led by Surulal Matari and others on Monday staged a token dharna before the district collectorate, protesting against a recent order of the RDC (Central) and RDC (South) and a subsequent order of the State Health department Secretary which debar entry of field workers into the campus of the Government medical college and hospitals (MCHs). The union called it as infringement of the Right to Work.
According to Section 15 of the Drugs and Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) Act, 1954, pharmaceutical products can be promoted among the registered medical practitioners in hospitals, dispensaries, medical and research institutions and also among chemists, druggists and pharmacists. Citing the law, the agitating representatives termed the ban on entry into medical college hospitals as illegal.
Moreover, the medical representatives who are known in legal terms as sales promotion employees are competent to promote sales under Specific Sales Promotion Employees (condition and services) Act, 1976. As such, the ban violates the fundamental Right to Work, the agitating representatives pointed out.  


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