India heavily reliant on China for 12 essential medicines

[Cortana]

India heavily reliant on China for 12 essential medicines
Chethan Kumar,TNN | Jan 28, 2015, 12.29 AM IST

The 12 drugs are: paracetamol, metformin, ranitidine, amoxicillin, ciprofloxacin, cefixime, acetyl salicylic acid, ascorbic acid, ofloxacin, ibuprofen, metronidazole and ampicillin. Eight of these are on WHO’s Model List of Essential Medicines.


BENGALURU: If Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Make in India mantra has to be implemented in some sector first, it has to be in the pharma industry. The reason: In the past four financial years, India has imported from China bulk drugs and active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) worth about Rs 38,186 crore. Most of these have gone into making essential drugs.

TOI had reported in November 2014 that national security adviser Ajit Doval had warned the government about over-dependence on China.

If submissions to the government by the department of pharmaceuticals are any indication, there is significant dependence on imports in the case of 12 essential drugs. "Approximately 80-90% of these (essential drugs) imports are from China," the department has said. "The decision is based on economic considerations."

The 12 drugs are: paracetamol, metformin, ranitidine, amoxicillin, ciprofloxacin, cefixime, acetyl salicylic acid, ascorbic acid, ofloxacin, ibuprofen, metronidazole and ampicillin. Eight of these are on WHO's Model List of Essential Medicines.

Documents of the department of pharmaceuticals show there has been a consistent growth in the import of drugs and APIs from China. In 2011-12, Rs 8,798 crore worth of bulk drugs and APIs were imported from China. This was Rs 11,000 crore in 2012-13, Rs 11,865 crore in 2013-14, and Rs 6,521 crore during April-September in 2014-15.

Sudhansh Pant, joint secretary, department of pharmaceuticals, told TOI from Delhi: "China out-prices India when it comes to APIs and bulk drugs. There is a need to see how to change this situation. A committee of secretaries under Dr VM Katoch (secretary, department of health research) is looking into the matter."

India is mulling a separate policy for APIs so as to create an environment for production of the same within the country. A lot of this policy will be derived from the Katoch committee's recommendations.

But India may to have find another way to reduce dependence before the policy bears fruit

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/i...w/46035298.cms

 

[EL LOBO]

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[IADnews]

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[Cortana]

Cortanna really whats up with u and India?? I mean a lt of hatred is coming from u

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[IADnews]

Yea i hate india ............

Bangladesh took existence because of India

 

[Shinigami]

Bangladesh took existence because of India

Cortanna is a pakistani false flag

 

[Raphael]

Interesting, I didn't know this. Indian media has always depicted India as a 'Pharmaceutical Superpower' that would take the most sophisticated drugs and medicines and make affordable generics without breaking a sweat, all the while telling foreign patentholders to get lost when they demanded royalties. It seems the ground reality of their dependence is a whole different story.

 

[Cortana]

Bangladesh took existence because of India

india took existence from polishing boots of British and mughals ............

 

[Ind4Ever]

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[Cortana]

Cortanna is a pakistani false flag

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@Cortana cheers bro ....

And what do u search in Google daily ? Boo India dot com

yep that is what i do ..........and m proud of that

Interesting, I didn't know this. Indian media has always depicted India as a 'Pharmaceutical Superpower' that would take the most sophisticated drugs and medicines and make affordable generics without breaking a sweat, all the while telling foreign patentholders to get lost when they demanded royalties. It seems the ground reality of their dependence is a whole different story.

India has got nothing of its own ....
Weapons from ... Russia , USA , Israel etc
Medicine ..... China
the whole industry from outside india is nothing on its own ....

 

[IADnews]

Cortanna is a pakistani false flag

I guess then just ignore the noob

 

[Cortana]

I guess then just ignore the noob

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[Shinigami]

Interesting, I didn't know this. Indian media has always depicted India as a 'Pharmaceutical Superpower' that would take the most sophisticated drugs and medicines and make affordable generics without breaking a sweat, all the while telling foreign patentholders to get lost when they demanded royalties. It seems the ground reality of their dependence is a whole different story.

i would really love to see that indian media report
(which you pulled out of your a$$)

its the rest of the world which says that
Ahead of Obama Visit, MSF Warns US Pressure on India Could Impact Access to Medicines for Millions | MSF USA

NEW DELHI—Ahead of US president Obama’s visit to India, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) expressed deep concern over the US government’s heightened efforts to undermine access to affordable medicines from India—often called the "pharmacy of the developing world." Millions of people across the globe rely on Indian low-cost generics, just as MSF relies on these to carry out its medical work.

 

[Ind4Ever]

here comes other defender of the same person ... they are all linked to one person in india ... these tricks wont work ..


yep that is what i do ..........and m proud of that


India has got nothing of its own ....
Weapons from ... Russia , USA , Israel etc
Medicine ..... China
the whole industry from outside india is nothing on its own ....

We already have Made in India weapons .... It's for secret missions . You can see it unless if it's war sur boom dushh damal

 

[Cortana]

you want some attention too i got it ......

We already have Made in India weapons .... It's for secret missions . You can see it unless if it's war sur boom dushh damal

i know you are there your attendance is marked .....