MULTINATIONAL PHARMACEUTICAL EMPIRE EXPLOITING INDIANS AS GUINEA PIGS AND RATS FOR CLINICAL TRAIL OF DRUGS !
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India , Aug 14 2012 (IPS) - Four-year-old Deepak Yadav, a mentally disabled boy from Indore city in the Indian state Madhya Pradesh, was being treated for stomach problems at Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalaya, a government hospital for children attached to the M. G. M
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India , Aug 14 2012 (IPS) - Four-year-old Deepak Yadav, a mentally disabled boy from Indore city in the Indian state Madhya Pradesh, was being treated for stomach problems at Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalaya, a government hospital for children attached to the M. G. M
. Medical College.
But when repeated administration of the anti-ulcer drug Rabeprazole started to exacerbate his condition, his parents stopped treatment and sought help from the Clinical Trial Victims Association (CTVA), which discovered that the boy had been a lab rat for an untested drug.
“We should have been told an unknown drug was being tested on our innocent child and given the choice to say no,” Deepak’s father Sooraj told IPS.
Deepak is now almost entirely reliant on his mother for survival. The family is poor, yet “doctors did not take any steps to get us compensation,” his father added.
This family’s tragic story is just one example of a sinister pattern unfolding across India.
A spate of deaths over the last four years caused by illegal clinical trials of untested drugs has ignited the wrath of rights activists and prompted prominent legal institutions to consider tightening the country’s drug regulation laws.
In response to a Right to Information query filed by Indore-based medical rights activist Anand Rai, the Drug Controller General of India (DGCI) disclosed that 2,031 people have died as a result of serious adverse events (SAEs) during drug trials in the past four years.
SAE-related deaths for 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 were 288, 637, 668 and 438 respectively.
It will be pertinent to mention here that as many as 211 people died between January and June 2012 due to serious adverse events [SAE] during clinical trails.Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has accepted on Friday the deaths could be related to diseases such as Cancer or administration of drugs and their side effects.It is ironical that there is approval from union Health Ministry for conducting such trails,though "provision for compensation"has been made study related injury or death.
But when repeated administration of the anti-ulcer drug Rabeprazole started to exacerbate his condition, his parents stopped treatment and sought help from the Clinical Trial Victims Association (CTVA), which discovered that the boy had been a lab rat for an untested drug.
“We should have been told an unknown drug was being tested on our innocent child and given the choice to say no,” Deepak’s father Sooraj told IPS.
Deepak is now almost entirely reliant on his mother for survival. The family is poor, yet “doctors did not take any steps to get us compensation,” his father added.
This family’s tragic story is just one example of a sinister pattern unfolding across India.
A spate of deaths over the last four years caused by illegal clinical trials of untested drugs has ignited the wrath of rights activists and prompted prominent legal institutions to consider tightening the country’s drug regulation laws.
In response to a Right to Information query filed by Indore-based medical rights activist Anand Rai, the Drug Controller General of India (DGCI) disclosed that 2,031 people have died as a result of serious adverse events (SAEs) during drug trials in the past four years.
SAE-related deaths for 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 were 288, 637, 668 and 438 respectively.
It will be pertinent to mention here that as many as 211 people died between January and June 2012 due to serious adverse events [SAE] during clinical trails.Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has accepted on Friday the deaths could be related to diseases such as Cancer or administration of drugs and their side effects.It is ironical that there is approval from union Health Ministry for conducting such trails,though "provision for compensation"has been made study related injury or death.
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