Drug trials should follow procedures: Azad
February 6th, 2012 - 7:34 pm ICT by IANSBangalore, Feb 6 (IANS) Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said Monday drug trials should be as per laid down procedures.
“Clinical trials have to be there, but going for a clinical trial for testing any medicine on human being, there is a laid down procedure,” Azad said, reacting to the apex court’s notice to the central government on a plea seeking investigation into illegal and unethical clinical trials.
“…Sometimes the companies don’t go by the laid down procedures and it causes great harm to persons and individuals on which this test is carried out,” the health minister said on the sidelines of a conference in Bangalore.
“Supreme Court might have said that if any test has to be carried out, it has to be carried out based on procedures.”
A Supreme Court bench of Justice R.M. Lodha issued notice on a plea by Madhya Pradesh-based Swasthya Adhikar Manch that, in a large number of cases, multinational corporations were using contract research organisations for carrying out clinical trials of their drugs which are not even approved.
Counsel Sanjay Parikh, appearing for the petitioner NGO, told the court that, as a consequence of these illegal clinical trials, a total of 1,727 patients have died in four years from 2007 to 2010.
The central government has been asked to respond to the notice within six weeks.
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