16.5 lac Remdesivir vials allocated to states during May 3 to 9


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Bengaluru, May 5: Union minister of chemicals and fertilisers DV Sadananda Gowda chaired a meeting to review the availability of drugs for Covid treatment and other essential drugs.

The minister appreciated the efforts of all seven manufacturers of Remdesivir for increasing the production capacity to 1.03 crore vials per month, up from 38 lakh vials per month a month ago.

This increased capacity will augment domestic availability of the injection, he said.


DV Sadananda Gowda (file photo)

He said the allocation of 16.5 lac vials of Remdesivir has been made to all states for the period between May 3 and May 9.

Since April 21, a total allocation of 34.5 lac vials has been made so far.

Allocation to states is a dynamic process and efforts will be made to further enhance supply in the coming weeks, the minister said.

Availability of other essentials drugs was also discussed during the meeting when Gowda stressed the need to continuously monitor the availability of other essential medicines and to check instances of black marketing and hoarding.

Dr Somani, DCGI, informed that a survey is being undertaken to ascertain the availability of various medicines in the market.

Preliminary findings suggest that at present, there is adequate availability of medicines in the market and the department of pharma, NPPA and CDSCO will continue to closely monitor their availability, he said.

Regarding black marketing and hoarding, Dr Somani said State Drug Controllers have been instructed to make teams at State level for field inspections. Strict Action is being taken against hoarding and black-marketing of drugs.

A number of preventive and enforcement actions have been taken by DCGI/SDCs to stop hoarding/black marketing/overcharging of Covid management drugs like Remdesivir, Tocilizumab, Favipiravir etc.

As many as 78 actions have been taken all over India, in coordination with SDCs, local police, FDA etc. for hoarding, overcharging, black marketing, and arrests were made/cases were registered. Seizures of drugs, vehicles, empty vials (meant probably for making spurious drugs) and cash were made. In one case in Chandigarh, Remdesivir vials to the tune of 3000 units were recovered.

Gowda lauded pharma companies and officers of the department of pharma, NPPA, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and CDSCO for their coordinated efforts and close cooperation in ramping up the availability of drugs for Covid treatment and other essential drugs within the shortest possible time. Such close collaboration between Government and the private sector is in need of the hour, he said.

The meeting was attended by S Aparna, secretary (Pharma), Dr V G Somani, DCGI, Shubhra Singh, chairperson, NPPA, Dr Mandeep Kumar Bhandari, joint secretary (Health and Family Welfare), Navdeep Rinwa, joint secretary (Pharma), Vinod Kotwal, member secretary, NPPA and other senior officers.

 

 

 

 

 

  

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  • Af,,,, Mangaluru

    Thu, May 06 2021

    One more FEKU , whether 16.5 lac or 100 lacs no one will question or audit now, say thing in this country chalta hai ,

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  • Dev, Mangalore

    Thu, May 06 2021

    Stop this useless but dangerous drug which lowers cellular level oxygen which will compound low level of the same in patients and likely side effect is anaphylactic shock causing deaths. According to one doctor it has mortality rate of 12% while the alleged pandemic has only 0.003%.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Wed, May 05 2021

    First give us our Promised Rs. 15 Lacks ...

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  • Francis Lewis, Sasthan

    Thu, May 06 2021

    All most 7 years we lost and still Rs. 15.0 lac not credited to our account. BJP and its leaders fooled the General Public and still they are fooling & lying everyday.

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  • Pinky, Shirva

    Thu, May 06 2021

    Need Rs. 15 lakh with 7 years interest.

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  • sri_elder, Karkala

    Wed, May 05 2021

    We have faith in bjp government and we will vote you again and again..

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  • Charles D'Mello, Pangala

    Wed, May 05 2021

    "16.5 lac Remdesivir vials allocated to states during May 3 to 9"......Mr. Gowda.....we are not interested know how many vials you have made available to the states ....!!!!!???? we are interested only to know whether they are available when we need them.

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  • kavin, UDUPI

    Wed, May 05 2021

    Karnataka has more than 6 crore people and immidiate actions and solutions need to take as soon as possible. People are loosing life and seems like government of karnataka is not taking immidiate actions.

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