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In meeting chaired by Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant, govt asks top Indian pharma firms to amp up production of these 38 raw materials, technically called APIs.
ThePrint had reported that PM Modi told pharma companies to stop bribing doctors. IPA secy general had said he didn’t have any information about such a meeting.
In her May 2019 book Bottle of Lies, Katherine Eban accused Indian pharma firms of major lapses such as ‘toxic impurities’ and fudging data on quality control.
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While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
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For this purpose hindustan antibiotics ltdshould be revived. It has a great capacity to produce bulk drugs.. I just want to say that only these psus can provide us affordable drugs and can withstand all types of epidemics ie-coronavirus
I request Nda led bjp govt to kindly revive this sick psu .Its employees have not got past 34 months salaries. And also they are surviving on meagre 5th pay scale. I request and plead narendra modi ji. .to provide a rehabilitation package for this sick first pharma psu.
We need to just revive sick IDPL and hindustan antibiotics facilities. for pencillin production by leasing it to private parties or as PSUs.