Six out of nine formulation and bulk drug manufacturing companies of the State are in Raipur which has four drug inspectors to monitor these companies. However, none of these drug inspectors ever conducted raid of any of these companies from November 22, 2013.
One of the companies, Mahavar Pharma, which is held responsible for supplying substandard and poisonous medicines resulting in death of 13 women in Bilaspur sterilisation camp also comes under the jurisdiction of drug inspectors of Raipur who had inspected the company for the last time on June 14, 2013.These facts came to fore in the written reply filed by the Health Minister Amar Agrawal on a question raised by Congress member Bhupesh Baghel in the winter session of Chhattisgarh Assembly on Wednesday.
Baghel had asked about details of drug manufacturing companies in the State, their location and their owners.He had also asked about drug inspectors in Raipur and the companies coming under their jurisdiction besides details of inspection conducted by these drug inspectors in 2012-13 and 2013-14.Baghel had also asked about the shortcomings detected by the drug inspectors during survey of these companies and action taken by them. The reply states that there are nine companies in the State under the formulation and bulk drug manufacturing category. These include six in Raipur district, two in Bilaspur district and one in Dhamtari district.
For Raipur, the reply states that there are six companies including Smriti Chemicals (Urla), OPG Pharma (Siltara), Mahavar Pharma (Shankar Nagar), Transflex (Jawahar Nagar), Dinesh Chemcials (Tarra,Raipur) and Proctoflex (Jawahar Nagar).Of these companies, the Drug inspector MM Molasariya conducted inspection of Smriti Chemcials on Aoril 12, 2012. Drug inspectors Hemant Srivastava and Hiren Manubhai Patel conducted inspection of OPG Pharma on May 17, 2013Drug inspectors SK Baksi and Tripti Jain conducted inspection of Mahavar Pharma on May 16, 2012 while Baksi inspected the company on June 14, 2013.
Drug Inspectors SK Baksi, Hemant Srivastava and Sanjay Kumar Netam conducted inspection of Transflex on February 8, 2013 and November 22, 2013. Drug Inspector MM Molasariya, Hemant Srivastava and Hiren Manubhai Patel conducted inspection of Dinesh Chemicals on April 12, 2013 and August 12, 2013.Similarly drug inspectors Baksi, Srivastava and Netam conducted inspection of Proctoflex on June 7, 2013 and November 22, 2013.