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Praja Arogya Vedika (PAV), affiliated to Jan Swasthya Abhiyan, wrote to the Union Minister of Chemicals and Fertilisers, J.P. Nadda, expressing interest implicit the persistent contented of substandard and spurious medicines successful the country.
The caller deaths of 12 children successful Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, linked to contaminated cough syrups containing toxic diethylene glycol (DEG), underscore the urgent request for stringent enactment to support patients and fortify the country’s cause regulatory framework, the PAV members wrote successful the letter.
They opined that the Central government’s ‘Ease of Doing Business’ policy, portion aimed astatine fostering concern growth, has inadvertently weakened cause prime control. The reliance connected aforesaid certification by manufacturers, coupled with inadequate inspections, has allowed substandard and spurious drugs to proliferate, they added.
Keeping successful presumption the caller incidents of deaths of children owed to contamination of drugs, the PAV has urged the authorities to fortify the regulatory framework, amend the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940, to see mandatory callback mechanisms, harsher penalties, and faster prosecution for manufacturers of substandard and spurious drugs.
They urged the authorities to summation the fig of cause inspectors and investigating laboratories to heighten monitoring capableness and to punish offenders stringently.
