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DEAR EDITOR,
Just recently, Minister Sharma announced that massive steps will be taken against the inferior electrical products being imported and a timeframe would be given for the plans to be fully executed. Immediately I got mixed feelings about this. Is this a political gimmick to gain mileage or are they serious?
During the PPPC’s tenure, I penned my disapproval about these inferior products that are on the shelves and my experience using them on the client’s house wasn’t much to my approval, but because of the expense, there wasn’t an option, even though I strongly objected to using them.
To my knowledge, the quality products were replaced with the inferior products for the same price and the quality product price was jacked up enormously. Should this plan materialise, I would be quite pleased, because people’s houses would be safer and they would save a lot. This is so, since many times I would have to go and change inferior products maybe two/three times a year and had they bought the quality products, they would have saved in the long run.
Editor, approximately twelve years ago, I penned my experience buying medicine for my just born baby and the horrible time I had getting the place to be checked because they were re-stamping the drugs after they had expired. Sadly, the drugs were seized but the crooks still carry on business as usual.
Expired products are easily obtainable everywhere and not being taken off the shelves/markets, neither is anyone being charged, even though you could trace to the importer. While government officials are jumping up and tooting their horns, they should know that the relevant agencies responsible are very incompetent.
Look around the country, you will see millions of dollars are spent to create billboards to promote the government’s achievements, but if you want to report somewhere selling expired drugs, you are lost.
In other words, expired drugs are rampant throughout Guyana and instead of seeing billboards to educate people about where or who to call, they are promoting themselves. The previous administration was the same.
What a wonderful country we are living in!
Sahadeo Bates
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