We have been lately having problems with our medications being found to be below par and not up to medical standards around the world. In Uganda & Kazakhstan there were reports of deaths among children after taking cough syrup made in India. The medication was being made by pharma companies near Delhi. There are now problems being reported from the US about eye drops from a Chennai company that have bacterial contamination as a result of which a number of people have lost vision and there has been one death. The contamination seems to be across different batch nos of the medicine and after testing by the CDC on bottles that had been opened by users. Apart from the loss of face that India encounters, there is a greater concern as to whether the same medicines were being sold in India and whether Indian lives were put at risk particularly of children. The Drugs Controller needs to be seized of these matters and conduct enquiry against these pharma firms to make sure that Indian patients are safe.
