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Apart from tightening the approvals process for pharmaceutical products meant for overseas markets, the government’s efforts are also directed at strengthening drug exports

With the Indian drugs failing quality checks in other countries, the government recently made GMP mandatory for micro, small and medium enterprises manufacturing drugs.

UPDATED: May 12, 2021 09:24 IST LIFELINE: A Chennai resident with Remdesivir purchased from a government facility (Arun Sankar/Getty Images) When a harried Naresh Indulkar, a resident of Mumbai’s Thane, went searching for three vials of Remdesivir for a relative in critical condition in hospital, it took nearly six hours to find a pharmacy with stock. “Rs 22,000 a vial,” whispered the man behind the counter, though the marked retail price was only Rs 1,800. Distraught, Indulkar returned to his apartment. A glimmer of hope appeared in the form of a reply from his neighbour to an appeal h...

ISSUE DATE: May 17, 2021 UPDATED: May 7, 2021 23:36 IST Staff at the Ghazipur crematorium in Delhi cart in fresh logs as funeral pyres burn all around them (Rajk Raj/ Getty Images) The second wave of Covid-19 is still cresting but by now we have all been touched by its terrors, and all too many of us by its sorrows—and the dismal realisation that we are in the midst of a recurring nightmare, a tragedy foretold. Here, we expose the sorry tale of neglect, apathy and failure of our political leadership. The institutional collapse and bureaucratic cowardice that facilitated super-spreader relig...

Inside Remdesivir puzzle: 6 producers, little supply! Demand fell to almost nil by January after the first wave of the pandemic in the country. Since there was no demand, most manufacturers stopped giving fresh orders for manufacturing PB Jayakumar | May 3, 2021 | Updated 19:22 IST Demand for Remdesivir fell to almost nil by January after the first wave of the pandemic in the country Reduction in production due to less demand after the first wave of coronavirus and lack of vigil on the part of the Government to ensure stockpiling led to current Remdesivir crisis, say sources. Gilead Life Sc...