TOI reported on Thursday how drug companies have been caught red-handed writing scientific recommendations of their own drugs and submitting them to the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) after getting them endorsed by reputed doctors for a speedy marketing approval.
MCI chairman Dr K K Talwar said the council has taken cognizance of the TOI report on the drug scam and will soon initiate action suo motu.
"We will be asking the DCGI to reveal the names of all the doctors involved in the scam. The ethical committee of the MCI will examine the document and take stern action against doctors involved if proven guilty. Doctors should realize they are doing great harm to the country by such acts. Unfortunately, the system has permitted them to do so till now," he said.
TOI reported how some of India’s top medicine experts from the country’s most iconic medical institutes like PGI Chandigarh; CMC Vellore; AIIMS Delhi and St John’s Medical College Bangalore had signed those recommendations. Usually, scientific recommendations are submitted by experts after they have studied a drug’s content.