HYDERABAD, NOVEMBER 20, 2025: The Drugs Control Administration, Telangana, as part of a special drive to detect irregularities in retail medical shops across the state and issued show cause notices to 196 retail medical shops for various discrepancies detected by the inspection teams.
The special drive was conducted with prime emphasis on verifying the sale of Schedule H1 drugs, including higher-generation antibiotics and habit-forming drugs, and ensuring that retail medical shops dispense them only against a valid prescription issued by a Registered Medical Practitioner.
The irregularities reported included the dispensing of Schedule H1 medicines without a valid prescription issued by a Registered Medical Practitioner; sale of prescription medicines in the absence of a Registered Pharmacist; non-maintenance or failure to produce Schedule H1 drug registers, sales bills, and purchase bills for medicines stocked in the retail medical shops; irregularities in maintaining copies of sales and purchase bills; and other related violations.
DCA Director-General Shahnawaz Qasim said that the public may report any complaints regarding illegal activities related to medicines, as well as any other suspected manufacturing activities concerning drugs, including narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, in residential, commercial, or industrial areas through the Drugs Control Administration, Telangana Toll-Free Number 1800-599-6969, operational from 10:30 am to 5:00 pm on all working days.
