Substandard drugs very low in State, says Health Minister
The Hindu
‘Govt. improving testing facilities, human resource to ensure only quality drugs reach market’
Only a minuscule proportion of the drugs tested in the laboratories in the State has been found to be substandard, Health Minister Veena George has said.
This has been corroborated by the nation-wide survey (2014-16) on the extent of Problems of ‘Spurious and Not of Standard Quality Drugs’ done by the National Institute of Biologicals (NIB), which reported that the proportion of substandard drugs was quite low in Kerala and that spurious drugs were not found in the State, she said. Ms. George was replying to a calling attention motion raised by Anoop Jacob, on the need to control the sale of substandard drugs in the State and to ensure that only quality drugs were available in the open market, in the Assembly on Tuesday.