Consumer Rights Forum (CRF) Chairperson Nasrren Shakeel Pathan has called for ensuring implementation of Consumer Protection Ordinance in its letter and spirit by establishing consumer courts for safeguarding the rights of consumers.
Stating this on Sunday, the consumer rights' activist called upon the Health Department to prohibit unethical drug promotion by the multinational companies. She also called upon doctors to play their due role in this regard.
Nasreen Pathan further said the government should evolve a strategy to ensure monitoring of description of items, which came under consumption of people for the guidance of consumers and for protecting them from misleading claims.
She also called upon the government to set up a commission comprising members of consumers' organisations and other civil societies for proper implementation of suggestions, recommended by the CRFs. Nasreen stressed the need for making concrete efforts to turn back price hike, which was causing hurdles in elimination of poverty.
The CRF chairperson also called upon the media to sense its responsibility by restraining itself from publishing advertisements of products misleading to the consumers. She said the consumers had lost their resistance power against inflation and other socio-economic pressures, and stressed upon the people to unite at a platform irrespective of political affiliation to get rid of inflation and other problems related to consumer rights.
CRF Chairperson Nasreen Shakeel stressed the need for launching awareness programme so that consumers could know about their rights, and said the government should make efforts on a large spectrum to protect the rights of consumers.
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