NewsX's Special Investigation reveals the
sickening reality of how thousands of India's
poorest and most vulnerable citizens are being
exploited by foreign pharma companies in
cahoots with their local agents and officials. A
two-judge bench ordered the govt to stop
these "rackets" and ordered that all drug
trials must now be supervised by the Union
health secretary. After over 2,000 deaths
during clinical drug trials in last five years,
the government plans to regulate the $500
million sector. Reports say changed drug laws
are on the anvil to make lapses by pharma
MNCs a punishable offence and enhance
compensation among other steps. Sources say
rules meant to monitor clinical trials under the
Drugs and Cosmetics Act would be notified
within this month. After notifying these rules,
which will lay down guidelines for pharma
companies engaging in drug trials in India, the
government will further amend the Drugs and
Cosmetics Act to make lapses by pharma MNCs
a punishable offence under law.
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