PGI director: Quality of drugs ensured at Jan Aushdhi Centres – ET HealthWorld | Pharma


Chandigarh: PGI director Prof Vivek Lal at a press conference organised on Saturday clarified about several misconceptions regarding generic drugs. “Studies clearly prove that even in lethal diseases like cancer, generic drugs are very effective. And again, in transplant, in preventing rejection of transplant, generic drugs are equally effective, and that too, at one fifth of the right price. The yardstick is to procure right generic medicines from the right chemist, ” he said.

Deliberating about the efficacy of the generic drugs, Prof Lal cited evidence from few published studies done from PGI.

Dispelling the myth about quality control in Jan Aushdhi Centres, director PGI said, “Outside US, India has the maximum number of FDA approved factories in the world. We at PGIMER take drugs from WHO approved plants and then every batch will be checked by NABL labs at regular intervals. So, quality is ensured at Jan Aushdhi Centres and its difficult to ensure the same quality when medicine is taken from any other pharmacy store as ethics of the owner of the pharmacy also impact the quality.”

He said, “The Institute prefers to procure generic drugs and a testimony to the same is the fact that during the year 2022-23, the total drugs purchased by PGIMER comprised 88 per cent of generic drugs and only 12 per cent of the branded drugs.”

A data of total sales from Amrit and Jan Aushadhi in PGI was shared where the total sales from 7 Amrit Pharmacy Centres, the highest in the country in any public sector hospital, for the last three months (April1-June 23) amounted to Rs 44 crores. “The total sales from the two Jan Aushadhi Centres of PGIMER, which stock only medicines and not surgical appliances as in Amrit Pharmacy, for the same period (April1-June 23) amounted to Rs. 72 lakhs,” the director further elaborated.

  • Published On Jun 25, 2023 at 10:21 AM IST

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