Enveloping patients with safety standards

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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.