Nomenclature of drug is a problem in our country. For example, most of the companies have cephradine preparation which is a first generation cephalosporin and widely used antibiotic. Every company has given a different name for their own cephradin brand.

Medical representatives of the companies are paying frequent visit to the doctors to memorise their brand name and doctors need to memorise different name of the same product. But why the doctor need to do so? This can be easily avoided. If all the companies name their product as per generic name. Such as in case of cephradin it can be cephradin Square, cephradin Beximco etc.

Benefit
If it would be so doctors would not require to take extra burden to remember all the names of the same product, representative visits can be reduced, number of representatives for the company will be less, drug dispenser will make less mistake, confusion among patients will be less.

In many countries they use generic name of the drug and we can also follow them. So relevant authorities are kindly requested to take care of the fact.

The writer is an Associate Professor of Department of Pediatrics of Community Based Medical College, Mymensingh.