Our profession was once again put in a bad light in one of the segments of the tv program "Imbestigador" when it featured in tonight's episode the 2 drugstores selling the unregistered drug misoprostol (Cytotec) in violation of the BFAD Advisory No. 02-02.
Nolee's Pharmacy in Calamba and Farmacia de Borja in Sta. Cruz (both in the province of Laguna) were positively found out selling the illegal drug.
The pharmacists in both drugstores were not present at the time when the "salesladies" were apprehended but it is more disappointing to learn from that segment that the owner of one of the drugstores is apparently a pharmacist.
If this is true, it seems that the guardian of the public health has gone enslaved to the lure of wealth.
