World Health Organization says willing to help in fake drugs study


Less than a month after completing its own study in India to estimate the incidence of counterfeit and spurious drugs in the local market, the World Health Organization (WHO) is willing to extend its financial as well as technical support to a proposed countrywide survey on fake drugs mooted by the Union ministry of health and social welfare.

The ministry last month announced that it will conduct a nationwide survey to ascertain the presence of fake drugs in the market by collecting 1 lakh to 1.5 lakh samples from across the country.

By C.H. Unnikrishnan

25 August 2007

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