Why India must act urgently to curb the problem of counterfeit drugs? Discuss the initiatives taken by Government of India to tackle the problem of couterfeit drugs.(200 Words)
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IAS Parliament 5 years
KEY POINTS
Reasons
· The effect of the chaos in India’s drug administration is that nobody is quite certain how reliable medicines sold in the market are.
· This is perhaps difficult to believe. In comparable markets such as many African countries, about a third of drugs have been found to be counterfeit. And, indeed, an overwhelming majority of those counterfeit drugs are imported from India.
· Unsurprisingly, independent studies such as those by the World Health Organization have shown much higher numbers.
· Under such circumstances, one of the first and most important steps must be a clearer sense of the actual position in terms of counterfeit and substandard drugs.
· This is another reason why India is a superbug hotspot antibiotics are prescribed too often, and they are sometimes substandard.
· It is also necessary to ask whether the state and central drug controllers are duplicating their capacity and efforts, and whether an overall reorganisation and harmonisation are necessary.
· Too often, problematic individuals shift to the regulator and then back to the line health ministries to protect themselves from accountability.
Initiatives taken by Government of India
· NITI Aayog and Oracle signed a Statement of Intent (SoI) to pilot a real drug supply-chain using blockchain distributed ledger and Internet of Things (IoT) software.
· Blockchain technology helps to permanently register a drug’s record in the manufacturer’s drug supply chain (serial number, labelling, scanning), leaving no scope for record tampering.
· Low-cost medicines manufactured in the country should not end up being labeled as being low in quality.
· Special trial courts to speed up the disposal of cases.
· Smoothening the IP regime to invest more in the manufacturing of drugs and at the same time providing proper patent to the inventor inventor will reduce the counterfeit drugs significantly.
Vendhan 5 years
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Madeshwaran 5 years
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nalini 5 years
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DHARU 5 years
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