Letters to The Editor — October 7, 2025

Drug makers, information norms

It is astonishing that immoderate manufacturers of cough syrup successful India person not learnt immoderate acquisition aft the uproar by immoderate overseas countries specified arsenic Gambia and Uzbekistan, immoderate years ago, pursuing a akin incidental — and the embarrassment caused to India (Inside pages, “Drug makers indispensable comply with revised norms: govt.”, October 6).

Lax inspection and a anemic oversight mechanics look to person emboldened immoderate pharma manufacturers to transverse reddish lines. It is not capable that the authorities prescribes norms and Good Manufacturing Practices. Hawk-like oversight with regular inspections and stringent enactment against pharmaceutical units not adhering to prescribed norms are imperative. India is called the “Pharmacy of the world” and cause manufacturers person to beryllium other cautious and adhere to planetary standards.

Kosaraju Chandramouli,

Hyderabad

I constitute this missive arsenic a Professor of household medicine, paediatrics, objective morals and aesculapian education. One fails to recognize the nonaccomplishment to recognise irrational combinations of galore medications disposable successful the market. In the contiguous instance, the cough syrup nether scrutiny is similar galore others disposable successful the marketplace — i.e., irrational combinations. It allegedly has chlorpheniramine, phenylephrine and paracetamol. The archetypal 2 person the imaginable for superior adverse effects, hence they are globally disallowed successful children nether property 2 if not property six. Combining them with paracetamol, which has a antithetic frequence of administration, makes it a precocious hazard for overdoses. These risks are irrespective of the summation of glycol levels. Should not these irrational combinations beryllium scrutinised and the approving authorization held responsible?

Dr. Sanjiv Lewin,

Bengaluru

An disfigured face

It is unfortunate that increasing hostility betwixt India and Pakistan has seeped into sport. In cricket, for example, 1 had the men’s and women’s teams refusing post-match handshakes, tarnishing the tone of the “gentleman’s game”. Laurels won oregon mislaid travel later, dignity comes first. Sports should unite, not divide. The authorities indispensable enactment to reconstruct respect and just play oregon halt teams from spreading animosity. True athletes emergence supra politics, showing that honouring a game’s values is the existent victory.

R.S. Narula,

Patiala, Punjab