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Gujarat sets up new district office at Rajkot, upgrades manpower for better enforcement of drug laws
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Shardul Nautiyal, Mumbai
May 22 , 2017
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The Gujarat Food and Drug Control Administration (FDCA) has recruited a
total of 42 drug control officers with opening of a new district office
at Rajkot in the Saurashtra region headed by an Assistant Commissioner
for better enforcement of drug laws in the state.
There are a
total of 25 district offices in Gujarat of which Rajkot is one of the
biggest in the seven districts of Saurashtra region. There are around 84
drug inspectors, 42 senior drug inspectors, 26 assistant commissioners,
six deputy commissioners and five joint commissioners headed by a
commissioner in Gujarat.
There are in total three testing
laboratories in the state, two dedicated food testing laboratories in
Rajkot and Bhuj respectively and one state of the art food and drug
testing laboratory at Baroda.
The existing food and drug testing
laboratory in Baroda has the capacity to test 7,500 drug samples
annually, of which the lab in Baroda tests around 6,000 to 6,500 samples
in a year. With this capacity building measure, the new drug testing
lab will also be able to test around 7,500 samples in a year, doubling
the drug testing efforts in the state to ensure access to only safe and
efficacious drugs across the state.
Meanwhile, Gujarat government
has also formed a committee to oversee recruitment of manpower for the
state National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) cell for
effective detection of ceiling price violations in drugs and devices. A
total of seven personnel including a scientific officer will be deputed
for the purpose of collection of data on price violations in the state
based on the much awaited financial support from the Central Government.
Gujarat
FDCA has already submitted Utility Certificate (UC) for the funds to
the NPPA for setting up the infrastructure of NPPA cell with an amount
of Rs.7 lakh sanctioned for the purpose
from the centre as a part of Central government’s mandate to set up
price monitoring cell in all the states.
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