{"id":222317,"date":"2023-01-13T19:12:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T13:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=222317"},"modified":"2023-01-13T19:13:51","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T13:43:51","slug":"terra-pharma-who-ruling-on-two-india-made-cough-syrups-should-lead-to-a-thorough-transparent-investigation-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/terra-pharma-who-ruling-on-two-india-made-cough-syrups-should-lead-to-a-thorough-transparent-investigation-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Terra Pharma – WHO ruling on two India-made cough syrups should lead to a thorough, transparent investigation at home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article \u201cTerra Pharma – WHO ruling on two India-made cough syrups should lead to a thorough, transparent investigation at home\u201d <\/strong>published in The Times of India <\/b>on\u00a013th January 2023<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus<\/strong>: GS 2 \u2013 Issues relating to the development and management of Social Sector\/Services relating to Health.<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>: About the concerns with Indian cough syrups makers.<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: The production licence of a drug firm was suspended after the WHO edict that two cough syrups made by the company should not be used for children.<\/p>\n

What are the recent concerns associated with Indian cough syrups makers?<\/h5>\n

a)<\/strong> Ambronol and DOK-1 Max were found in Indian drugs these contain toxic ethylene glycol. This is linked to 19 children’s deaths in Uzbekistan, b)<\/strong> A similar tragedy occurred in the Gambia where the deaths of 70 children were linked to the consumption of four contaminated syrups made by an Indian pharma manufacturer.<\/p>\n

In both cases, poor manufacturing of solvents used in the medicines is the reason behind the issue.<\/p>\n

Note<\/strong>: Medicines manufactured for export to rich countries are made according to the specifications of the importing country.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Must read: Uzbekistan says 18 children die due to cough syrup made by an Indian firm; blame it on ethylene glycol<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
Why is this a cause of concern for the Indian pharma sector?<\/h5>\n

Problems in India<\/strong>: These products were not sold in India. The medicines manufactured for use in India generally meet adequate standards. However, the problem of fake or less-than-ideally- effective pills persists.<\/p>\n

Loss of India’s reputation<\/strong>: The malpractices of Indian pharma companies will create a wrong impact on India’s manufacturing\/regulatory capability.<\/p>\n

What should be done to ensure proper manufacturing of pharma products?<\/h5>\n

The government must undertake a thorough and transparent inquiry<\/strong> focussed on the supply chain. This should happen from vendors of active pharmaceutical ingredients to the manufacturing process to regulatory processes.<\/p>\n

The government should ensure proper pharma manufacturing standards<\/strong> in India.<\/p>\n

India deserves the tag \u2018pharmacy of the world\u2019. But with that tag, India should understand the global responsibility of ensuring the strictest standards<\/strong> for products.<\/p>\n

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Source: The post is based on the article \u201cTerra Pharma – WHO ruling on two India-made cough syrups should lead to a thorough, transparent investigation at home\u201d published in The Times of India on\u00a013th January 2023. Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Issues relating to the development and management of Social Sector\/Services relating to Health. Relevance: About… Continue reading Terra Pharma – WHO ruling on two India-made cough syrups should lead to a thorough, transparent investigation at home<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10496],"class_list":["post-222317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}