IBNLive:
New Delhi: Tuesday, October 09, 2012.
The Supreme
Court has hauled up the Centre on clinical drug trials in the country. Issuing
notices to all state governments on Monday, the apex court asked them if they
were being kept in the loop by the government on the clinical trials.
The court
further sought details from the Centre on four aspects of the trials. These
included: The number of clinical trials that have taken place between 2005 and
2012; if any death took place during these years; in cases of death, if any
compensation was given and; if there had been any side effects of the drugs
that were tested.
An RTI
earlier this year had revealed that Bhopal gas tragedy victims were being used
as guniea pigs for drug trials in hospitals. At least 12 victims had died in
the illegal drug trials till July this year. The Supreme Court came down
heavily on the Madhya Pradesh government and the Centre after an NGO filed a
PIL. CNN-IBN had shown in 2010 how drug trials were being conducted in
hospitals in Madhya Pradesh.
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