Posts Tagged ‘South Asia’

MUMBAI: Price control of drugs in India is making it difficult for companies to fight against spurious medicines as they are unable to set off the resultant increase in cost, Nicolas Piramal Director Swati Piramal said today. "The government does not provide for additional cost while fixing the prices for drugs," she said. Spurious drugs…

NEW DELHI: The pharma industry has come up with a solution to curb the menace of fake drugs being rampantly sold in the country. The industry has sought permission of chemicals ministry, the administrative ministry for drug pricing, to allow an increase of 3-4% on drug retail prices so that it can introduce tamper-proof packaging…

PARALAKHEMUNDI, Aug 14: Paralakhemundi town today witnessed three rallies by different organisations for the recent issues like fake medicine trading, female foeticide. The Lok Sangram Manch along with the CPI (ML) organised a rally and later presented a memorandum to the CDMO demanding action against the persons involved in fake drug manufacture and female foeticide…

BHUBANESWAR: With his back to the wall over Minister of State for Health Duryodhan Majhi s statement that he (Majhi) apprised him about the proliferation of spurious drug manufacturing and trade in Orissa much before, a red-faced Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik came out in his own defence on Monday. Naveen said he had directed for…

BHUBANESWAR: Congress activists on Monday staged a demonstration in front of the Raj Bhawan demanding dismissal of Naveen Patnaik-led Government and a CBI probe into the fake drugs and infanticide incidents. The party supporters belonging to Bhubaneswar district unit also submitted a memorandum to Governor Rameshwar Thakur in this connection. 31 July 2007 Read the…

Bhubaneswar : The Orissa government suspended a drugs inspector and arrested five persons for their alleged role in a fake drugs racket that was unearthed recently, officials said Wednesday. "T.V. Rao, a drugs inspector posted at the district headquarter of Bolangir has been suspended for his alleged role in the circulation of fake medicines," a…

BALANGIR: The raids and subsequent arrest of Shankar Agrawala, the alleged kingpin and owner of the fake medicine factory in Kantabanji, have only revealed part of a vicious network. On a tip-off, Balangir and Kantabanji police raided the medicine manufacturing unit on Friay and found fake medicines worth over Rs one crore. Balangir SP Himansu…

The proposed survey of spurious drugs by the Drug Controller General of India should help quantify the extent of the problem and put an end to unsubstantiated numbers being used to buttress various claims. That should, however, not detract from the urgent need of putting in place a system to unearth and prosecute manufacture and…