Overview
- Licences of 176 retailers and 39 wholesalers were revoked over the past year as part of a targeted enforcement campaign.
- Testing at 10 locations across Mumbai, Thane, Pune, Aurangabad and Nagpur found 34 substandard samples out of 36 examined.
- Six samples of a paediatric cough-syrup brand failed quality checks, and clinicians and pharmacists were directed to halt prescribing or selling propranolol-containing medicines.
- Officials reported alleged supply of fake and substandard drugs to government hospitals by unauthorised firms and cited instances of altered or recombined components sold under new names such as "Pankreatine/Pancreatin."
- With 176 drug-inspector posts vacant, the government plans to fill 109 positions via the MPSC and is upgrading testing capacity, including work on labs in Nashik and Pune.