Maybe I am posting it in the wrong forum.
But the matter is serious enough to highlight it.
I wish to draw the attention of people to an recent campaign of calumny and slander being orchestrated against our Pharmaceutical Industry.
Suddenly Indian manufactured medicines are bringing death and injury to people from Africa to Kazakhstan/Uzbekistan.
The WHO is also being used to malign Indian made drugs and other pharmaceutical products.
Now no one is defending anybody or any company manufacturing defective medicines. If there are indeed quality shortfalls then the Government and the Regulatory Authorities should intervene and put in place corrective measures. But how come all of a sudden an series of incidents involving Indian manufactured medicines are happening in different parts of the world.
If Indian made medicines were not made to the best quality standards then it should have been apparent decades ago. When Indian made drugs including cheap generic versions of life saving drugs were exported to dozens of countries all over the world. Saving lives. Enabling medicines to be affordable to millions of people in the developing countries. There are almost nil reports of Indian medicines endangering patients in India and other countries.(Counterfeit medicines are in a different category and India does have a problem of unscrupulous individuals carrying out such nefarious activities) For decades they have kept the trust of the people.
Now overnight how can Indian made medicines turn killers.
One cannot but come to the conclusion that an well organised attempt is being made by powerful forces to sabotage exports of Indian pharmaceutical products and besmirch the reputation of Indian Pharmaceutical Companies.
An irony because it is common knowledge that big Multinational American and European Pharmaceutical companies have often introduced many new drugs into the international market which have serious side effects. But information about the side effects were hidden and the medicines were sold at exorbitant profits. Literally making millions of patients in the poor countries of Africa and Asia and other parts of the world bankrupt.
India should target the products of Western Multinationals which are being sold in huge quantities in India as retaliation, if indeed an organised effort is being made to destroy the Indian Pharmaceutical industry.
Though one would like to believe that such an well organised slander campaign is not happening, the recent spurt in such types of incidents breed deep suspicion.