Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 150
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 151
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Warning (512): Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853 [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48]
Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148]
Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181]
LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Parl Committee Asks Govt Why It Didn’t Use PSUs To Make COVID Drugs -Banjot Kaur

Parl Committee Asks Govt Why It Didn’t Use PSUs To Make COVID Drugs -Banjot Kaur

Share this article Share this article
published Published on Mar 23, 2022   modified Modified on Mar 23, 2022

-TheWire.in

* The Parliamentary standing committee on chemicals and fertilisers has produced a report highlighting gaps in the availability of COVID-19 drugs and devices during the pandemic.

* The committee has asked the national government why PSUs didn’t receive licenses to make COVID drugs when private manufacturers did.

* The MPs on the committee also spotlighted widespread irrational drug use in COVID-19 management, despite the existence of a standard treatment protocol.

New Delhi: The Parliamentary standing committee on chemicals and fertilisers has said it is surprised that the Union government didn’t use public sector facilities in the country to ramp up production of COVID-19 drugs.

The committee said the Union government had expeditiously approved the production of remdesivir at 40 new manufacturing sites, after the ferocity of the country’s second COVID-19 outbreak precipitated an acute shortage of drugs at pharmacies.

“The Committee fails to understand that none of the Pharma Public Sector Undertakings under the Department of Pharmaceuticals have been granted voluntary licence to manufacture Remdesivir and other COVID essential drugs for public health supply,” the committee’s report read.

“Equal opportunity should also be extended to these Pharma PSUs who have developed trust, quality and cost effectiveness in their pharma products over a long period of time.”

The committee comprises 30 members of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, and is chaired by Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam MP K. Kanimozhi. It presented its report earlier this week.

Committee members also said they were uneasy about the widespread irrational use of drugs, in ignorance of the standard treatment protocols. It cited the example of remdesivir again. On June 7, 2021, the government issued a revised treatment protocol for COVID-19, which said remdesivir could only be used with COVID-19 patients who had moderate to severe illness.

“The prescription of Remdesivir was rampant during the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic rather than its prescription only in [a] select subgroup of patients with moderate to severe disease,” the report said.

Please click here to read more. 


TheWire.in, 23 March, 2022, https://science.thewire.in/health/parliamentary-standing-committee-covid-19-drugs-manufacturing-irrational-prescriptions-report/?fbclid=IwAR0qJvL0YWUSZeAs4ebWUz995JGKoRK9s-sLm9hScxVWKnmAOz-kNMjpRpI


Related Articles

 

Write Comments

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

*

Video Archives

Archives

share on Facebook
Twitter
RSS
Feedback
Read Later

Contact Form

Please enter security code
      Close