In UP assembly, CM says SP workers involved in the illegal trade & none of them would be spared. Akhilesh has alleged Yogi govt shielding those involved.
Parents in rural areas insist on medicine for every cough, and doctors are pressured by both expectations and pharmaceutical marketing and end up obliging.
Enforcement Directorate investigating Sresan Pharmaceuticals, its key employees, and Tamil Nadu drug control officials after deaths of 21 children in Madhya Pradesh.
India’s pharmaceutical sector is valued at $50 billion. It has built its reputation on affordability and accessibility. The deaths in Chhindwara tell a different story.
A chain of failures from a Tamil Nadu factory to clinics in Chhindwara killed 24 children. Coldrif tragedy exposes collapsed manufacturing standards and regulatory negligence.
Maharashtra FDA has directed all joint commissioners & drug inspectors to submit details of manufacturers in their jurisdictions & collect oral formulation samples.
When citing the biopsy reports, the Chhindwara district collector indicated that kidney tissue analysis of the affected children had suggested contaminated DEG in the cough syrup.
India’s exports of pharmaceuticals during 2022-23 was valued at $25.4 billion with a growth of almost 3.25 percent over the previous financial year, according to Pharmexcil.
The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.
IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.
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