Abstract

PHARMACOVIGILANCE IN INDIA: CHALENGES AND FUTURE PROSPECTS

Durga Prasanna Nayak*

Abstract

In the scenario of ever increasing range and potency of medicines, safety of medicines is one of the key parameter along with therapeutic efficacy for success of any drug. Now India is a preferred clinical trialals for lunch drug entitives. By keeping in view of increasing standardization process, Pharmacovigillance play an key role in health care system and through assessment and discovery of interaction among drug and their effect. Pharmaceutical and biotechnology medicines are design to cure prevent and monitoring ADRs required for each medication throughout its life cycle. Especially in India adverse events repotted by PV system potentially benefitted to the community. PV helps to the patients to get well and manage optimally or ideally avoid illness is a collective responsibility of health care system the review summarized objective and methodology use in PV with critical overview of existing PV in India, challenges to overcome and future prospect to Indian context.

Keywords: Pharmacovigillance, Adverse drug reaction, Clinical trials, Biotechnology.