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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