Enveloping patients with safety standards
The article discusses recent concerns regarding patient safety in India, specifically focusing on the circulation of spurious and expired drugs. It highlights investigative reports on illegal repackaging networks and proposes new oversight measures like CCTV surveillance in pharmacies.
Why it matters
Public health is at risk due to the proliferation of counterfeit medicines, necessitating stricter regulatory oversight and improved hospital safety protocols.
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With stunning regularity in recent years, headlines in India are swept up by news on spurious drugs being sold, poor quality, or contaminated drugs causing hospitalisations and even deaths, and periodic updates from the cops on fake drug busts. If you thought the periodicity of these complaints might have numbed us to what is happening in the pharma sector in the country, well, you have that wrong.
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