“The Indian pharma industry should strive to maintain the reputation of India as the ‘Pharmacy of the World’ which was established during the Covid-19 crisis” said Union Minister for Chemicals & Fertilizers and Health & Family Welfare, Dr Mansukh Mandaviya at the closing ceremony of IPA’s 8th Global Pharmaceutical Quality Summit.
“The country could achieve this feat with the shared responsibility of the Government and pharma industry during the global crisis. The industry relentlessly worked to follow all instructions given by the Government, knowing the huge responsibility on them and made all the medicines required for treatment of Covid-19 available. They also supported the Government to produce the various vaccines”, added Shri. Mandviya.
While lauding the responsible approach of the industry he said that nobody ever thought of their own profit or became selfish and took undue advantage of the situation. Due to this support and the responsible approach, India could supply necessary medicines and vaccines to more than 150 countries. At the same time the Minister also pointed towards the importance of the quality of the medicines.
He said that no country complained about the quality of the medicines as the Indian pharma industry never compromises with the quality of the medicines. We know that like all the other sectors there are few people who try to compromise with the quality of the products. But they should always remember that the government has zero tolerance policy against these element.
He further informed that Government is taking stringent actions against the companies involved in such type of malpractices.
He urged the pharma industry to establish a self regulatory body to monitor the quality of pharma products.
He also added that the country is marching ahead in the field of research and innovation as the government has opened its research facilities to all including the private sector.
