The medicine you purchased from the nearby medical store is not curing your disease. You suspect the…

The correct choice is: ask other neighbours, if they had similar experience and if yes, then take up the matter with consumer court/other agencies.

Spurious medicine is a danger to everyone. The responsible step is to check whether others have had the same problem and then take the matter to the consumer court or the drug authorities.

Ignoring it or just swapping the medicine leaves others at risk. Hence the best response is ‘ask other neighbours, if they had similar experience and if yes, then take up the matter with consumer court/other agencies.’