Currently India is aggressively adopting ‘Smart life’ where everything is driven by smart technology like artificial intelligence and IoT, but a grave reality still haunts most of the population is lack of basic healthcare facilities.
Currently India is aggressively adopting ‘Smart life’ where everything is driven by smart technology like artificial intelligence and IoT, but a grave reality still haunts most of the population is lack of basic healthcare facilities. In recent years, many projects and initiatives have been undertaken to improve the quality of life of common people, however, more concrete steps are still required to achieve the dream of ‘Healthy India’.
In a developing country like India, cheaper drugs & affordable healthcare infrastructure models can work wonders because the more it is affordable the more it is accessible. To make things affordable, we need innovation in drugs, developing therapeutic domain and building healthcare facilities. In last couple of decades India has developed a strategy of delivering highest quality drugs at lowest cost to patients within the country and other developing ones.
India revised the patent regime in pharmaceutical sector to comply with the WTO agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) in 2005,which excluded certain types of chemical entities such as polymorphs and salts combination of drug patentability so as to prevent patent ‘evergreening’ by large pharmaceutical companies, which can make drugs unaffordable to the general population. Below are the changes that Indian Pharmaceutical Industry has gone through during the pre-compliance (till 2005) and post compliance(after 2005) phases. Read More
How patents have transformed the Health Care Sector By Amit Aggarwal
Co-Founder and Director, Effectual Services
Article was 1st published On ETHealthworld