The Hindu Business Line : Mandatory ADR reporting by medical colleges on cards

NEW DELHI: With a view to report adverse drug reactions (ADR) in an effective way, government may soon make it compulsory for all medical colleges in India to have a pharmacovigilance department.

“We are planning to make it compulsory for all 289 medical colleges in India to have a separate pharmacovigilance department for reporting of adverse drug reactions,” Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) Surinder Singh said, while speaking at a semina r held by industry chamber Assocham.

Pharmacovigilance deals with reporting detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of adverse reactions of drugs on human body and this helps in identifying the suitability of medicines. “Besides this, we are also going to ask Medical Council of India to make it compulsory for medical colleges to have a Pharmacovigilance department before granting them recognitions,” he added. Once all these infrastructures are in place, DCGI would have a complete set up in the country for the effective reporti ng of ADRs in the country, Singh said.

Speaking about initiatives taken by the government about reporting of adverse drug reactions in the country, he said, “So far, government has collected around 12,000 samples across the country from 24 locations in a span of three years and is now going t o link the data with international organisation located in Switzerland.”

The government was earlier not able to link the data with international agencies due to high price for linking softwares. “Soon, we would resolve all matters with them and data would be linked to Switzerland,” Singh said. - PTI

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