EDITORS EMULSION 17th Jan 2018

Greetings!

With holidays over and most of us back on our desk, it’s time to take things a little more seriously now. Hazards in the health sector are innumerable, be it ‘cause of unsafe meds or diagnostic issues. In healthcare, a brand needs to be 100% honest with their customers. While Pharma companies should be pro active towards the quality and replication of their drugs in the market, Diagnostic companies should offer accessible, affordable services while ensuring accuracy. What is worse is that the curse of wrong diagnosis is very difficult to break. Incorrect diagnosis will lead to inaccurate treatment, resulting in prolonged treatment, leading to complications due to wrong medicines, and the burden of unwanted expenses. In this issue of PSM India Capsules we throw some light on how to find the right diagnosis for you.

There comes some good news from the government in the first month of this year. To ensure better systems and frameworks for the healthcare workforce in the country the Ministry has launched the Allied and Healthcare Professionals’ database portal. In Drug laws and Policy Injections, read more on this and also on inspections of drug testing labs in our country commencing after over a decade.

Our section on Pharma injections deals with interesting articles on making Uttar Pradesh a hub of Pharma sector; Indian R&D based Pharma companies getting 304 ANDA approvals in 2017 and Niti Aayog revamping the process of drug selection for price control. Find out about the medicine ingredients that have been banned from 6 Chinese firms while another 3 Indian firms face action for selling hypertension drugs without approval; Government trashing a WHO report on fake doctors while a girl succumbs on taking expired tuberculosis drugs and a cancer patient being administered expired medicine; all this and much more covered in this issue of The Prescription.

We constantly endeavour not only to reach to you important information from the health and medicine world but also to create a connect with consumers all over. We welcome articles and write ups from our readers and are glad to place them under the section titled Subscriber’s Symptoms. This issue covers a debatable contribution on “there can’t be different standards for private and government hospitals” which I’m sure most of you might agree with.

Do not hesitate to mail your comments on this edition to help us further improve. We appreciate your support and trust in us and are happy to have you as our loyal reader.

Feedback is what keeps us going. Should you have any query or question, please feel free to get in touch with us. Write to me on pooja@patientsafetyaccess.org

The request we made in our 1st January issue of The Prescription of each one touching 5 lives this year, including yourself, with your positive actions remains to be seen. Post your pics on our facebook wall or chirp it on our twitter handle. Go ahead and reach out.

Stay Healthy. Stay Protected.

Pooja Khaitan

Editor-in-Chief,

The Prescription