{"id":248741,"date":"2023-06-20T20:03:51","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T14:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=248741"},"modified":"2023-06-20T20:03:51","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T14:33:51","slug":"safety-first-indias-regulators-must-ensure-quality-and-safety-of-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/safety-first-indias-regulators-must-ensure-quality-and-safety-of-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Safety first – India\u2019s regulators must ensure quality and safety of drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source:\u00a0<\/b>The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cSafety first – India\u2019s regulators must ensure quality and safety of drugs\u201d<\/b>\u00a0published in\u00a0The Hindu <\/b>on\u00a020th <\/strong>June\u00a0<\/b>2023<\/b><\/p>\n

Syllabus<\/strong>: GS 3 \u2013 Changes in industrial policy and their effects on industrial growth.<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>: About issues with Indian-made drugs.<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: Two patients have recently died after being given Indian-made anaesthetic drugs in Sri Lanka<\/a><\/strong>. This has raised questions about imported Indian drugs.<\/p>\n

What are the recent issues highlighted in Indian-made drugs?<\/h2>\n

-A few months ago, the United States found a highly drug-resistant bacteria in Indian-made drugs.<\/p>\n

-Last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) linked the deaths of at least 70 children in the Gambia<\/a><\/strong> from acute kidney injury, to Indian-made cough syrups. Deadly chemicals such as diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol were used as a cheaper alternative for propylene glycol. A detailed causality assessment by the Gambia and independent investigations found a link between the deaths and the toxic chemicals.<\/p>\n

Similarly, last year, Uzbekistan claimed that children died<\/a> <\/strong>after consuming India-made cough syrup.<\/p>\n

Note: Diethylene glycol-contaminated drugs have led to at least five incidents of poisoning in Chennai, Mumbai, Bihar, Gurugram and Jammu between 1972 and 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n

-Earlier this year, WHO flagged the contaminated drugs found in the Marshall Islands and Micronesia due to Indian-made cough syrup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Must read: <\/strong>Issues with the drug regulatory system in India \u2013 Explained, pointwise<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

What should be done?<\/span><\/h2>\n

The Indian drug regulator has so far failed to institute measures to make sure drugs produced in India for export and domestic use are safe. To protect India as a pharmacy of the global south, the regulator should act as a watchdog to ensure drug safety, and not as a facilitator for the pharma industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more:\u00a0INDIAN PHARMACEUTICAL SECTOR CHALLENGES AND REFORMS<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source:\u00a0The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cSafety first – India\u2019s regulators must ensure quality and safety of drugs\u201d\u00a0published in\u00a0The Hindu on\u00a020th June\u00a02023 Syllabus: GS 3 \u2013 Changes in industrial policy and their effects on industrial growth. Relevance: About issues with Indian-made drugs. News: Two patients have recently died after being given Indian-made anaesthetic drugs in… Continue reading Safety first – India\u2019s regulators must ensure quality and safety of drugs<\/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":[216,10498],"class_list":["post-248741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700780013,"cached_date":1701357387},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248741","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=248741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}