In last few articles we discussed lot about pharmacovigilance programmes and there was lot of queries of whether such one existed in india, so just trying to give in brief of the Pharmacovigilance in india...though it has long way to go, we are happy that we have also started off.... Pharmacovigilance Programme of India. The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) , New Delhi, under the aegis of Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India has initiated a nation-wide pharmacovigilance programme in July, 2010, with the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi as the National Coordinating Centre (NCC) for monitoring Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR) in the country to safe-guard Public Health.
In year 2010, 22 ADR monitoring centres (AMCs) including AIIMS, New Delhi had been set up under this Programme. To ensure implementation of this programme in a…
