{"id":85488,"date":"2020-03-30T21:28:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T15:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=14517"},"modified":"2020-03-30T21:28:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T15:58:52","slug":"hydroxychloroquine-now-a-schedule-h1-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/hydroxychloroquine-now-a-schedule-h1-drug\/","title":{"rendered":"Hydroxychloroquine now a schedule H1 drug"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>The government has notified hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial drug, under Schedule-H1 to regulate and restrict the sale and distribution of the drug.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Classification of Drugs in India:<\/strong> The Drugs and Cosmetics Rules, 1945, under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940, provides for classification of drugs into different schedules.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<table class=\"wp-block-table\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Schedule<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Features<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Schedule H1<\/td><td>Aims to check the indiscriminate use of antibiotics, anti-TB and some other drugs.Cannot be sold without a valid prescription. <br>Package of the drugs has a mandatory warning printed in a box with a red colour border.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Schedule H<\/td><td>Cannot be sold without a valid prescription. <br>Labels of any Schedule H drug must display the text &#8220;Rx&#8221; on the top left corner of the label<br><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Schedule X<\/td><td>Labels of any Schedule X drug must display the text &#8220;XRx&#8221; on the top left corner of the label. <br>Includes narcotic and psychotropic substances-based drugs.Cannot be sold without a valid prescription. <br>Drug retailer has to preserve the copy of the prescription for two years<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The government has notified hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial drug, under Schedule-H1 to regulate and restrict the sale and distribution of the drug. Facts: Classification of Drugs in India: The Drugs and Cosmetics Rules, 1945, under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940, provides for classification of drugs into different schedules. Schedule Features Schedule H1 Aims to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/hydroxychloroquine-now-a-schedule-h1-drug\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hydroxychloroquine now a schedule H1 drug<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2846],"class_list":["post-85488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-schedule-of-drugs","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700773361,"cached_date":1702822128},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}