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A rational drug policy
Sarkar, P. K.
Sarkar, P. K.
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"Pharmaceutical companies have an important place in medical care, especially in India, a country where the mortality and morbidity due to various diseases of deprivation, communicable diseases in particular, are very high. Every year hundreds of people still die from malaria for which chloroquine is a cheap but effective remedy; thousands go blind due to lack of vitamin A, and millions suffer from endemic goitre due to iodine deficiency. We have also the largest number of people suffering from tuberculosis and leprosy in the world. At the same time, India is technologically developed enough to be self-reliant, with research capability for the discovery of new drugs. Unlike most other countries, responsibility for the pharmaceutical sector in India is shared by two ministries, the Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals under the Ministry of Industry and the Directorate of Drugs Control under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare." (pg 7)
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2004-01
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